flimflammer

noun

flimflammer

noun

Etymology From flimflam + -er.

1

A swindler; a con artist.

And “The Real McCoy” turned the story of the famous boxer Kid McCoy into the tall yet intimate tale of a flimflammer who slugged and conned his way to notoriety at the turn of the 20th century.2008 June 29, Louisa Thomas, “Violent Love”, in New York Times:

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