flimflammer

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flimflammer

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From flimflam + -er.

noun flimflammers

A swindler; a con artist. And “The Real McCoy” turned the story of the famous boxer Kid McCoy into the tall yet intimate tale of a flimflammer who slugged and conned his way to notoriety at the turn of the 20th century.

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@misc{flimflammer_2026,
  title = {flimflammer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flimflammer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}