bilk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

verb

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.

/bɪlk/ en-us-bilk.ogg

bilk bilks bilking bilked

Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk.

abuse beglammer counterfeit deceive dissemble dissimulate feign jiff lead astray overreach put on spoof sham trick

bilker

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