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1. A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
   - bunco [N. Amer], bunco game [N. Amer], bunko [N. Amer], bunko game [N. Amer], con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting
    
2. Deceptive, insincere or nonsense talk
   - flimflammery

1. Deceive somebody
   "We flim-flammed the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week";
   - play a joke on, play tricks, trick, fob, fox, pull a fast one on, play a trick on, hose [N. Amer], sucker [N. Amer]

Derived forms: flimflams, flim-flamming, flim-flammed

Type of: cheat, cozen, deceive, delude, lead on, rig, swindle

Encyclopedia: Flimflam