flimflam

noun

1 flimflam

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verb

Roget 545: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully^†, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool^†, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.    impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm off on, palm upon, foist upon; snatch a verdict; bluff off, bluff; bunko, four flush [Slang], gum [U.S.], spoof [Slang], stuff (a ballot box) [U.S.].    circumvent, overreach; outreach, out wit, out maneuver; steal a march upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap^†, ensnare; nick, springe^†; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay^†, spread the toils, lime; trapan^†, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle^†, nousel^†; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh^†; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate^†, hocus, escamoter^†, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up [Slang], sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of^†, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over etc. (influence) 615; gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble etc. 544.    cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck; live by one's wits, play at hide and seek; obtain money under false pretenses etc. (steal) 791; conjure, juggle, practice chicanery; deacon [U.S.].    play off, palm off, foist off, fob-off.    lie etc. 544; misinform etc. 538; mislead etc. (error) 495; betray etc. 940; be deceived etc. 547.    ... show more

Moby thesaurus: balderdash, ballot-box stuffing, balls, baloney, bamboozle, bamboozlement, beat, befool, befooling, beguile of, bilk, blague, bluffing, bosh, boutade, brainstorm, bull, bullshit, bunco, bunk, bunkum, burn, calculated deception, capriccio, caprice, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chicane, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvention, claptrap, cock-and-bull story, cog, cog the dice, con, conceit, conning, cozen, cozenage, crank, crap, craze, crazy idea, crib, crotchet, deceit, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defraud, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, do, do in, do out of, dodge, double-talk, drivel, dupery, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, euchre, exaggeration, eyewash, fad, fairy tale, fake, fallaciousness, fallacy, falsehood, falseness, falsity, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, finagle, fish story, fishy transaction, flam, fleece, flimflammery, fob, fond illusion, fool, fool notion, fooling, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, freak, freakish inspiration, fudge, gammon, gerrymandering, ghost story, gouge, graft, grift, gull, gyp, gyp joint, half-truth, hallucination, harebrained idea, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hoodwink, hoodwinking, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, humor, illicit business, illusion, imposition, imposture, jazz, jiggery-pokery, kidding, kink, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, maggot, megrim, mendacity, mirage, moonshine, mulct, notion, outwitting, overreach, overreaching, pack the deal, passing fancy, phantasm, pigeon, pious fiction, practice fraud upon, prevarication, putting on, quirk, racket, rook, scam, screw, self-deception, sell, sell gold bricks, sham, shave, shortchange, slight stretching, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, stack the cards, stick, sting, story, subterfuge, swindle, swindling, take a dive, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, thimblerig, throw a fight, toy, trickiness, tricking, trumped-up story, untruth, vagary, victimization, victimize, vision, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, white lie, willful misconception, wishful thinking, yarn ... show more.

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