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flimflam verb to shortchange, to swindle US, 1881- Then I wouldn’t have to flimflam poor crazy Zelda any more, and I would tell her the whole hideous truth. — Max Shulman, I was a Teen-Age Dwarf, p. 121, 1959
- He said, “Blue, I’ll die and go to the bottomless pits of hell before I let you flimflam me out of my two grand.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 33, 1969
- He had been up in Harlem flimflamming a colored woman preacher out of $935 and thought he would take a little vacation. — The Life & Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, p. 15, 1969
- After all these years of flimflamming, it’s time to get real. — Odie Hawkins, Great Lawd Buddha, p. 196, 1990
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