Bilk

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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To defraud, cheat, or swindle.
  • transitive verb. To evade payment of.
  • transitive verb. To thwart or frustrate.
  • transitive verb. To elude.
  • noun. One who cheats.
  • noun. A hoax or swindle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In cribbage, the spoiling of one's score in the crib.
  • noun. Nothing; vain words.
  • noun. [To call a word “Arabic” or “Hebrew” was and still is a way of dignifying slang or jargon.]
  • noun. A trick; a fraud.
  • noun. A cheat; a swindler.
  • Fallacious; unreliable.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to.
  • noun. A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
  • noun. A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
  • noun. Nonsense; vain words.
  • noun. A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud by not fulfilling an obligation; to leave in the lurch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. evade payment to
  • verb. escape, either physically or mentally
  • verb. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
  • verb. cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
  • Word Usage
    "Investment banks established known super risky credit instruments built to "bilk" both domestic and foreign investors and bond traders of their equity."
    Form
    bilked  bilking  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    ilk  milk  silk  wilk  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    avoid  baffle  balk  balk  beat  
    verb-form
    bilked  bilking  bilks