flim-flams
flim-flams is the plural of flim-flam.
Meaning of flim-flam
Noun
flim-flam (countable and uncountable, plural flim-flams)
- Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.
- Most reports of supernatural occurrences turn out to be flim-flam when carefully investigated.
- Synonyms:
- absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil
- Confidence game, con game.
- Those who got the joke understood that all of the city’s talk of ideas and principles was flimflam to conceal self-enrichment at the public’s expense. Those who didn’t, didn’t.2025 November 22, David Frum, “Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2025
- Table tennis.
Questions about flim-flams
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