Bilk

Quick meaning: Bilk is a noun meaning (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
2. (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
3. (transitive, archaic) To evade, elude.
4. (intransitive, UK) 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.
5. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
6. (obsolete) A cheat or swindler.

Example Sentences

They also perpetrate nonviolent crimes like bilking elderly couples out of their life savings and running a business with ruthless disregard for the welfare of the workforce or stakeholders.

Mr. Gallagher, who went by the nickname Doc, pleaded guilty on Aug. 31 to several charges connected to what prosecutors described as a Ponzi scheme that lasted nearly 10 years and bilked older people of their retirement savings.

Word Forms

• bilks
• bilking
• bilked

Synonyms for bilk

Depending on context, synonyms include abuse, beglammer, counterfeit, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include evade, elude, spoil, thwart, scotch, frustrate.

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