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   flimflam

   /ˈflɪmflam/

   noun

   • 1. nonsensical or insincere talk: "pseudo-intellectual flimflam"
   • 2. a confidence trick: "flimflams perpetrated against us by our elected officials"

   verb

   • 1. swindle (someone) with a confidence trick: "the tribe was flimflammed out of its land"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: symbolic reduplication.

   Scrabble Points: 18

   • F

     4

   • L

     1

   • I

     1

   • M

     3

   • F

     4

   • L

     1

   • A

     1

   • M

     3

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