bilked








verb (used with object)

  1. to defraud; cheat: He bilked the government of almost a million dollars.
  2. to evade payment of (a debt).
  3. to frustrate: a career bilked by poor health.
  4. to escape from; elude: to bilk one’s pursuers.

noun

  1. a cheat; swindler.
  2. a trick; fraud; deceit.

verb (tr)

  1. to balk; thwart
  2. (often foll by of) to cheat or deceive, esp to avoid making payment to
  3. to escape from; elude
  4. cribbage to play a card that hinders (one’s opponent) from scoring in his or her crib

noun

  1. a swindle or cheat
  2. a person who swindles or cheats
v.

1650s, from or along with the noun (1630s), first used as a cribbage term; as a verb, “to spoil (someone’s) score.” Origin obscure, it was believed in 17c. to be “a word signifying nothing;” perhaps it s a thinned form of balk “to hinder.” Meaning “to defraud” is first recorded 1670s. Related: Bilked; bilking.

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