Flam

n.	1.	A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion. A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity. - South.
v. t.	1.	To deceive with a falsehood. [imp. & p. p. Flammed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flamming.] God is not to be flammed off with lies. - South.

ballot-box stuffing, balls, baloney, beat, beguile of, bilk, blague, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunco, bunk, bunkum, burn, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, claptrap, cock-and-bull story, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, cozenage, crap, crib, deception, defraud, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, do in, do out of, dodge, euchre, exaggeration, eyewash, fairy tale, fake, fakement, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, finagle, fish story, fishy transaction, fleece, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gammon, gerrymandering, ghost story, gouge, graft, grift, gull, gyp, gyp joint, half-truth, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, illicit business, imposition, imposture, jiggery-pokery, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, mendacity, moonshine, mulct, pack the deal, phony, pigeon, pious fiction, practice fraud upon, prevarication, put-on, racket, rip-off, rook, scam, screw, sell, sell gold bricks, sham, shave, shortchange, slight stretching, spoof, stack the cards, stick, sting, story, swindle, take a dive, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, thimblerig, throw a fight, trumped-up story, untruth, victimize, white lie, yarn

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