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Definition of Flimflammers
1. flimflammer [n] - See also: flimflammer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flimflammers
Literary usage of Flimflammers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Highways and Byways of the Pacific Coast by Clifton Johnson (1908)
"But the people in this country are what you call flimflammers, or, in other words,
four-flushers. They lay off that hardpan desert into fruit ranches and ..."
2. The American Negro as a Dependent, Defective and Delinquent by Charles Harvey McCord (1914)
"A large proportion of drunks and disorderlies, of flimflammers, "blind tigers,"
burglars, and hold-up men come from this class. Monroe N. Work states that ..."
3. The Treasure Train by Arthur Benjamin Reeve (1917)
"New York, I knew, was full of high-class international crooks and flimflammers
who had flocked there because the great field of their operations in Europe ..."
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