flashman

Noun

Meaning

(obsolete) A pimp.

A slick salesman or spin doctor.

(obsolete) A woman's boyfriend.

(obsolete) Someone who distracts the target of a thief; a confidence trickster.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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In the third of George McDonald Fraser's Flashman novels, Flash for Freedom (1971), Flashman dabbles in the slave trade and visits Dahomey. Source: Internet

Originally penned by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown's School Days, Hughes' 1857 celebration of the English public school, Flashman was a notorious bully who, Tom Brown himself claimed, "never speaks to one without a kick or an oath." Source: Internet

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