flim-flam

noun3

1. •
   Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.

   • Most reports of supernatural occurrences turn out to be flim-flam when carefully investigated.
2. •
   Confidence game, con game.

   • Those who got the joke understood that all of the city’s talk of ideas and principles was flimflam to conceal self-enrichment at the public’s expense. Those who didn’t, didn’t. — 2025
3. •
   (no longer used) Table tennis.