Definition of "flimflam" [flim•flam]

• Nonsense; humbug. (noun)
• A deception; a swindle. (noun)
• To swindle; cheat. (verb-transitive)

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• "He characterized as a flimflam my Medicare Advantage amendment to the health-care bill that would transitionally protect the benefits of nearly a million seniors currently enrolled in these plans."
• "But, though sober reason told him this, it was astonishingly comforting to be going to some one who could be relied on to see the facts of the situation without any of that 'flimflam' with which imagination is accustomed to surround them."
• "He threw around the word "flimflam," as in Ryan is "serving up leftovers from the 1990s, drenched in flimflam sauce.""