flim

/ (flɪm) /

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noun

Northern English dialect a five-pound note

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Words nearby flim

flight suit, flight surgeon, flight-test, flightworthy, flighty, flim, flimflam, flimsy, flinch, flinders, Flinders bar

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How to use flim in a sentence

If any of this flim-flam is true, the lumbersexual already sounds way more annoying than the metrosexual.
How Straight World Stole ‘Gay’: The Last Gasp of the ‘Lumbersexual’|Tim Teeman|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And me trying to flim-flam myself into thinking that I've got to keep still because I promised Tom.
Tom Slade with the Colors|Percy K. Fitzhugh
He took the same delight in employing them in his works as he did flim-flams, flub-dubs, and catamarans.
Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions|Slason Thompson
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?
Christmas|Zona Gale

He was content to laugh, and let the hour go past in such flim-flams of criticism and persiflage.
The Bow of Orange Ribbon|Amelia E. Barr
Gaydon has a great deal of observation and common sense, and was never plagued with a flim-flam of fancies.
Clementina|A.E.W. Mason