verb
- deceived or cheated someone, especially through trickery or fraud
Usage: informal; past tense of flimflam
Examples
- The tourists were flimflammed by the street vendor who sold them fake jewelry.
- She realized she had been flimflammed when the product never arrived.
- The elderly man was flimflammed out of his life savings by phone scammers.
- They flimflammed investors with promises of guaranteed returns.
- The con artist flimflammed dozens of people before being caught.
- He felt embarrassed after being flimflammed by such an obvious trick.