flam

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
2. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext

   “all Pretences, or Pleas of Conscience, to the contrary, are nothing but Cant and Cheat, Flam and Delusion.”

   “a perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity”

3. Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.

verb

1. (obsolete)To deceive with a falsehood.

   “God is not to be flammed off with Lyes.”

2. (ambitransitive)To play (notes as) a flam.

   “We will commence to flam the notes now, as most of them are flammed when you play a March.”

   “Drums ruffled and flammed.”