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flam
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flam is a surname. Notable people with the surname (or its variant Flahm ) include: Faye Flam , American science writer Harry Flam (born 1948), Swedish economics professor at Stockholm University Helena Flam (born 1951), Polish-born sociology professor ...
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Etymology 1 n. 1 A freak or whim. 2 A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion. vb. (context obsolete English) To deceive with a falsehood. Etymology 2 n. (cx drumming English) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played ...
Usage examples of flam.
Karl says, tossing the tablet onto the desk where it caroms off a stack of books, "spare me the flim flam nobility, the shtick about the tireless search for truth.
Paul's Churchyard, where she bought a pair of gloves, which she gave me, and thence renewed her directions to the coachman to drive to her house in *** street, who accord-ingly landed us at her door, after I had been cheer'd up and entertain'd by the way with the most plausible flams, without one syllable from which I could conclude anything but that I was, by the greatest good luck, fallen into the hands of the kindest mistress, not to say friend, that the varsal world could afford.