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flimflammers

flimflammers is the plural of flimflammer.

Meaning of flimflammer

Noun

flimflammer (plural flimflammers)

  1. A swindler; a con artist.
    • And “The Real McCoy” turned the story of the famous boxer Kid McCoy into the tall yet intimate tale of a flimflammer who slugged and conned his way to notoriety at the turn of the 20th century.2008 June 29, Louisa Thomas, “Violent Love”, in New York Times

Questions about flimflammers

What is flimflammers the plural of?
Flimflammers is the plural of flimflammer.

Words near flimflammers in the dictionary

  1. Flimby
  2. flimflam
  3. flimflammed
  4. flimflammer
  5. flimflammeries
  6. flimflammers
  7. flimflammery
  8. flimflamming
  9. flimflams
  10. flimmer
  11. flimmered

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