bilk
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /bɪlk/
bilk (plural bilks)
Verbbilk (bilks, present participle bilking; past and past participle bilked)
- (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
- (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 615:
- 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.
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 615:
- (archaic, transitive) To evade, elude.
- Italian: frodare, defraudare
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