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Word: flim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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Usage:

...board. Holding on with her arm through the window of the cab door while the knaves pounded her hand and twisted her fingers to make her let go, she drew a police whistle from her apron pocket and blew it until policemen stopped the careering vehicle, arrested the caitiff flim-flammers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Janitress | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...Manhattan, statistics have long been circulated showing a high percentage of criminals among cabmen. To the city's executive department, reports have come in concerning thugs, dips, flim-flams, louies, yeggs and fiddle-faced murderers who have posed as honest metre-men only to procure material upon which to indulge their vicious predilections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: What May Be | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

Thugs, dips, flim-flams, louies, yeggs and fiddle-faced murderers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jun. 8, 1925 | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

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