fourflusher

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fourflusher (plural fourflushers)

  1. Alternative spelling of four-flusher (cheat; charlatan)
    • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “11”, in Babbitt:
      Of course the average fellow in Zenith has got more Individual Initiative than the fourflushers here, but I got to hand it to New York. Yes, sir, town, you're all right--some ways.