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flam
1[ flam ]
noun
- a deception or trick.
- a falsehood; lie.
verb (used with or without object)
- to deceive; delude; cheat.
flam
2[ flam ]
noun
- a drumbeat consisting of two notes in quick succession, with the accent on the second.
flam
1/ flæm /
noun
- a drumbeat in which both sticks strike the head almost simultaneously but are heard to do so separately
flam
2/ flæm /
noun
- a falsehood, deception, or sham
- nonsense; drivel
verb
- tr to cheat or deceive
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Example Sentences
If any of this flim-flam is true, the lumbersexual already sounds way more annoying than the metrosexual.
And me trying to flim-flam myself into thinking that I've got to keep still because I promised Tom.
Flam women, men, and children, and a great many common soldiers.
The third, that lay Massy above, seem'd porphyry, that flam'd Red as the life-blood spouting from a vein.
What's the use of buying tinsel and flim-flam when you're eating milk gravy to save butter and using salt sacks for handkerchiefs?
Uninflammable, un-in-flam′a-bl, adj. incapable of being set on fire.
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