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noun
Bilk  n.  
1.
A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
2.
A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
3.
Nonsense; vain words.
4.
A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.





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"Bilk" Quotes from Famous Books



... slight lapse into jocularity, in concession to his audience)—"for one night honly"—that's your direction, unless you look out. (With virtuous indignation.) 'Ere are you—calling yourself a gentleman, and old enough to know better—riding in this man's keb, and trying to bilk him out of his money. Why, you ought to be ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 • Various
... In the Westcote narrative (1780) Lyttelton explains the dream by his having lately been in a room with a lady, Mrs. Dawson, when a robin flew in. Yet, in the same narrative, Lyttelton says on Saturday morning "that he was very well, and believed he should bilk the ghost". He was certainly in bed at the time of the experience, and probably could not be sure whether he was awake ...
— The Book of Dreams and Ghosts • Andrew Lang
... began) are you playing me false? Have you set another man on the track with a view to bilk me of my promised fee? Explain, or I throw ...
— Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Words linked to "Bilk" :   prevent, rip off, thwart, spoil, foreclose, evade, dash, forestall, baffle, break loose, let down, frustrate, cross, deprive, chisel, foil, disappoint, scotch, cheat, forbid, get away, elude, queer, short-circuit, escape, preclude, ruin


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