Bilk

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To defraud, cheat, or swindle: made millions bilking wealthy clients on art sales.
  • v. To evade payment of: bilk one's debts.
  • v. To thwart or frustrate: "Fate . . . may be to a certain extent bilked” ( Thomas Carlyle).
  • v. To elude.
  • n. One who cheats.
  • n. Obsolete A hoax or swindle.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud by not fulfilling an obligation; to leave in the lurch.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to.
  • n. A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
  • n. A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
  • n. Nonsense; vain words.
  • n. A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In cribbage, to balk or spoil any one's score in his crib.
  • To frustrate or disappoint.
  • To deceive or defraud; leave in the lurch; cheat: often with of: as, to bilk one of his due; to bilk a creditor; “don't you bilk me,”
  • To evade or escape from; dodge; elude.
  • n. In cribbage, the spoiling of one's score in the crib.
  • n. Nothing; vain words.
  • n. [To call a word “Arabic” or “Hebrew” was and still is a way of dignifying slang or jargon.]
  • n. A trick; a fraud.
  • n. A cheat; a swindler.
  • Fallacious; unreliable.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. evade payment to
  • v. escape, either physically or mentally
  • v. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
  • v. cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
    • Verb Form
    bilked    bilking    bilks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deprive    break loose    getaway    escape    cheat    rip off    chisel   
    Form
    bilked    bilking   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    balk    cheat    trick    hoax    nonsense    defeat    deceive   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    ilk    milk    silk    wilk   
     
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