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Meaning of flim-flam | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈflɪmflæm/

Definitions

  1. Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Confidence game, con game.
    countable, uncountable
  3. Table tennis.
    archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

“Most reports of supernatural occurrences turn out to be flim-flam when carefully investigated.”
“Those who got the joke understood that all of the city’s talk of ideas and principles was flimflam to conceal self-enrichment at the public’s expense. Those who didn’t, didn’t.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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