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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Nonsense; humbug.
  2. n. A deception; a swindle.
  3. v. To swindle; cheat.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A freak; a trick; an imposition or deception.
  2. To cheat out of (money), as in making or receiving change or the like.

Wiktionary

  1. n. nonsense
  2. n. deception
  3. v. To swindle or cheat

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A freak; a trick; a lie.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. deceive somebody
  2. n. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Etymologies

  1. Probably of Scandinavian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • hernesheir "Can a fund be provided for?, in the terse shorthand of railroad telegraphy. --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906. Jan 22, 2013

  • Louises False ID's, code words, assignations, surveillance, night flights. Espionage flimflam. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
    Feb 27, 2012

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