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flimflam (noun) – 1. Nonsense; humbug.

  1. A deception; a swindle.

Source : The Free Dictionary

Etymology : Also flim-flam, 1530s, a contemptuous echoic construction, perhaps connected to some unrecorded dialectal word from Scandinavian (compare Old Norse flim “a lampoon”). From 1650s as a verb.

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