Bilk Definition

bĭlk
bilked, bilking, bilks
verb
bilked, bilking, bilks
To defraud, cheat, or swindle.
Made millions bilking wealthy clients on art sales.
American Heritage
To balk or thwart.
Webster's New World
To evade payment of.
Bilk one's debts.
American Heritage
To cheat or swindle; defraud.
Webster's New World
To thwart or frustrate.
American Heritage
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noun
One who cheats.
American Heritage
A bilking or being bilked; hoax.
Webster's New World
A hoax or swindle.
American Heritage
A person who cheats; swindler.
Webster's New World

(cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.

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Origin of Bilk

  • Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk.

    From Wiktionary

  • Perhaps alteration of balk

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bilk Sentence Examples

  • To make things even worse for Travolta and his family, three people were involved in an extortion attempt to bilk millions of dollars from the actor shortly after his son's death.

  • Unscrupulous con artists use so-called cold readings to bilk their victims.

  • Along with the growing popularity and hype surrounding the benefits of Maqui juice, scams to bilk consumers of their hard-earned cash have also emerged.

  • In the suburb of Bilk there are the Floragarten and Volksgarten, the astronomical observatory and the harbour.

  • The site thus gained was converted into new boulevards, while the railway to Neuss and Aix-la-Chapelle was diverted through the suburb of Bilk and thence across the Rhine by an iron bridge.

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