flimflam
noun
[ ˈflɪmflam ]
• nonsensical or insincere talk.
• "pseudo-intellectual flimflam"
• a confidence trick.
• "flimflams perpetrated against us by our elected officials"
flimflam
verb
• swindle (someone) with a confidence trick.
• "the tribe was flimflammed out of its land"
Origin:
mid 16th century: symbolic reduplication.
