bilk
Pronunciation Noun

bilk (plural bilks)

  1. (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
  2. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
Verb

bilk (bilks, present participle bilking; past and past participle bilked)

  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).
    • 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.
  3. (archaic, transitive) To evade, elude.
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