Meaning of frammis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of gizmo.
   US, slang
2. A confidence trick; a swindle.
   US, slang

Examples

“Right now all his spare time is spent at Moseleys, roller skating for hours on end. "Foozle the frammis snaffle," says Bob, "or don't you like it?"”

“Are you satisfied that your multiplicative inverse rests securely on its Cartesian coordinates with its cosecant separated from the frammis by the rigid transformation of its orthogonal projection?”

“"Frammis on the Antispode": The doubletalk heading this paragraph takes the sting out of Mr. Ruark's comment, even if his gay colored foulard Sinatra bow tie didn't contradict his comment[.]”

“"Listen, I caulderoled the nurse for a minute and sneaked down the frammis." "What?" "I had to talk to you."”

“But how can they react helpfully to orders that sound like, "Shift the shackle on the frammis to the glotz"?”

“And what they added up to was curtains - for him. He'd really stepped into something this time: a Grade-A jam, an honest-to-Hannah, double-distilled frammis.”

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