Meaning of flashman | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A slick salesman or spin doctor.
2. A pimp.
   obsolete
3. A woman's boyfriend.
   obsolete
4. Someone who distracts the target of a thief; a confidence trickster.
   obsolete

Examples

“A flashman just naturally tried to promote and show- off his company at every opportunity. Wasn't that what sales-PR was all about? Even the police departments engaged flashmen.”

“"They're all Los Angeles flashmen running this thing. Joe McDonald told anyone who'd listen that they're just a bunch of sleazebags opposed to everything we stand for, dragging show biz into it, and he was right."”

“Are not your favourite friends horn-boys and flashmen —”

“While loud her flashman cries, 'Arise, my ladybird, arise!'”

“He now had a country seat at Kilmacud and women procured for him by a flashman.”

“Her flashman, in her estimation, is ten times handsomer, certainly more acceptable.”

“c. 1833, Broadside Ballad, "My flashman has gone to sea". My flashman he's a Yankee, with his hair cut short behind”

“"Stop your jaw, or I'll stop it for you, and teach you another time to know a gentleman from a flashman."”

“By not knowing it: the fellow's manners are so plausible and even insinuating, his appearance so gentlemanly, his voice so winning, that I suffered him to cheat me at Newmarket in the sale of a spavined horse, a regular screw, on the strength of which he claimed my acquaintance ; but as soon as I twigged that he was a flashman — one of the swell mob, I mizzled — gave him the cut direct.”

“He shared the fate of most country bumpkins on arriving at the metropolis, and was quickly robbed by a flashman, who claimed acquaintance with him and cleared out his fob”

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