bilk

Plural: bilks

Verb

Verb Forms: bilked, bilking, bilks

• To cheat or defraud, especially of money.
• cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
• evade payment to
  • "He bilked his creditors"
• escape, either physically or mentally
• To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
• To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
• To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
• To evade, elude.

Noun

• The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
• A deception, a hoax.
• A cheat or swindler.

Examples

• Some players try to BILK points by playing obscure, questionable words, hoping they won’t be challenged.

Synonyms

baffle, cross, elude, evade, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart, abuse, counterfeit, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, jiff, overreach, put on, sham, spoof, trick

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