flam
1a deception or trick.
a falsehood; lie.
to deceive; delude; cheat.
Origin of flam
1Words Nearby flam
Other definitions for flam (2 of 2)
a drumbeat consisting of two notes in quick succession, with the accent on the second.
Origin of flam
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How to use flam in a sentence
If any of this flim-flam is true, the lumbersexual already sounds way more annoying than the metrosexual.
How Straight World Stole ‘Gay’: The Last Gasp of the ‘Lumbersexual’ | Tim Teeman | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd me trying to flim-flam myself into thinking that I've got to keep still because I promised Tom.
Tom Slade with the Colors | Percy K. Fitzhughflam women, men, and children, and a great many common soldiers.
Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books | Horatia K. F. EdenThe third, that lay Massy above, seem'd porphyry, that flam'd Red as the life-blood spouting from a vein.
The Vision of Purgatory, Complete | Dante AlighieriWhat's the use of buying tinsel and flim-flam when you're eating milk gravy to save butter and using salt sacks for handkerchiefs?
Christmas | Zona Gale
Uninflammable, un-in-flam′a-bl, adj. incapable of being set on fire.
British Dictionary definitions for flam (1 of 2)
/ (flæm) mainly dialect /
a falsehood, deception, or sham
nonsense; drivel
(tr) to cheat or deceive
Origin of flam
1British Dictionary definitions for flam (2 of 2)
/ (flæm) /
a drumbeat in which both sticks strike the head almost simultaneously but are heard to do so separately
Origin of flam
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