Meaning of BILK
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- [v] escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
- [v] evade payment to; "He bilked his creditors"
- [v] hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
- [v] cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
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| | Synonyms: | | baffle, cross, elude, evade, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
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| | See Also: | | beat, break loose, cheat, chisel, dash, deprive, disappoint, double cross, escape, forbid, foreclose, forestall, get away, let down, preclude, prevent, rip off, ruin, short-circuit | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Bilk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bilked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bilking}.] [Origin unknown. Cf. {Balk}.]
To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by
nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give
the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor. --Thackeray.
\Bilk\, n.
1. A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his
score; a balk.
2. A cheat; a trick; a hoax. --Hudibras.
3. Nonsense; vain words. --B. Jonson.
4. A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky
person. --Marryat.
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| | Related Terms: | | avoid, baffle, balk, beat, beguile of, bunco, burn, cast down, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvent, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, cross, dash, defeat, defeat expectation, defraud, diddle, disappoint, disillusion, dissatisfy, do, do in, do out of, dodge, double, duck, elude, eschew, euchre, evade, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, foil, frustrate, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, let down, mulct, overreach, pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon, rook, ruin, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, shake, shave, shortchange, shun, shy, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, tantalize, tease, thimblerig, throw a fight, thwart, victimize |
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