Crossword-Solution: FLIMFLAM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flimflam | n. | A freak; a trick; a lie. |
We have 41 clues for the answer “FLIMFLAM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pull the wool over the eyes of | 1 answer |
| Nonsense (last 4 + ...) | 1 answer |
| Deception; nonsense | 1 answer |
| Cunning swindle | 1 answer |
| chouse | 8 answers |
| Fast one | 13 answers |
| Con game | 15 answers |
| doubletalk | 19 answers |
| cozen | 23 answers |
| Hokum | 27 answers |
| Scam | 33 answers |
| Bauble | 35 answers |
| Game 32-card | 38 answers |
| Defraud | 41 answers |
| bilk | 45 answers |
| imposture | 47 answers |
| BANANA oil | 50 answers |
| diddle | 52 answers |
| CONFIDENCE game | 54 answers |
| "Abracadabra!" | 54 answers |
| Gull | 55 answers |
| applesauce | 55 answers |
| hot air | 61 answers |
| Bamboozle | 62 answers |
| Kid | 65 answers |
| Swindle | 67 answers |
| Job | 69 answers |
| chicane | 72 answers |
| Balderdash | 74 answers |
| bluff | 74 answers |
| Dupe | 75 answers |
| Humbug! | 75 answers |
| Bull | 81 answers |
| Deceive | 82 answers |
| fake | 88 answers |
| Trifle | 89 answers |
| Con | 90 answers |
| Hustle | 97 answers |
| Deception | 97 answers |
| Trick | 111 answers |
| Non-sense | 135 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FLIMFLAM (5)
But mind, now, you get gay once, sonny, or try to flimflam me, or forget that I'm the boss of the bathtub, an' strike me blind, I'll cut you open, an' you can lay to that, son.
There are others in the world--these are no flimflam stories, nor tales of a tub--who, being much troubled with the toothache, after they had spent their goods upon physicians without receiving at all any ease of their pain, have found no more ready remedy than to put the said Chronicles betwixt two pieces of linen cloth made somewhat hot, and so apply them to the place that smarteth, sinapizing them with a little powder of projection, otherwise called doribus.
The fairies appeared to regard the gnat as a pestiferous insect, but a contemptuous pity led them to call upon him for a recitation, which invariably was in the following strain: THE FATE OF THE FLIMFLAM A flimflam flopped from a fillamaloo, Where the pollywog pinkled so pale, And the pipkin piped a petulant "pooh" To the garrulous gawp of the gale.
The gluglug glinked in the glimmering gloam, Where the buzbuz bumbled his bee-- When the flimflam flitted, all flecked with foam, From the sozzling and succulent sea.
Flimflam.] Defn: A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
Quotes with FLIMFLAM (2)
If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do things that were not pleasurable, such as toiling for our subsistence. And then we would not survive. By the same token, should our mass mind ever become discontented with the restricted pleasures doled out by nature, as well as disgruntled over the lack of restrictions on pain, we would omit the mandates of survival from our lives out of a stratospherically acerbic indignation. An…
When you’re poor and hungry and frightened of failure, you often don’t have the luxury of high values, lofty goals, and social conscience. Funny how fear and poverty will acid-wash your value set, burn away all the flimflam and artifice and learned morality and leave you with nothing but the urgency of survival. - Dr. Dan Trix - Chasing the Horizon.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1972–2019).