bilk

bilk
Synonyms and related words:
avoid, baffle, balk, beat, beguile of, bunco, burn, cast down, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvent, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, cross, dash, defeat, defeat expectation, defraud, diddle, disappoint, disillusion, dissatisfy, do, do in, do out of, dodge, double, duck, elude, eschew, euchre, evade, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, foil, frustrate, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, let down, mulct, overreach, pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon, rook, ruin, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, shake, shave, shortchange, shun, shy, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, tantalize, tease, thimblerig, throw a fight, thwart, victimize

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Synonyms:
(by not fulfilling an engagement), , , , , ,


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  • Bilk — is the registered trademark of the Philadelphia based singer/songwriter who goes by the same name. BILK has performed in New Orleans Mariott, LOVE Park Philadelphia, Seattle Space Needle, Seattle Sheraton. BILK s album From Monkey With Love has… …   Wikipedia

  • Bilk — Bilk, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bilked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bilking}.] [Origin unknown. Cf. {Balk}.] To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bilk — [bılk] v [T] [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: Perhaps from balk] informal to cheat someone, especially by taking their money = ↑swindle bilk sb out of sth ▪ Consumers were bilked out of more than $15,000 …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • bilk — [bilk] vt. [? altered < BALK] 1. to balk or thwart 2. to cheat or swindle; defraud 3. to get away without paying (a debt, etc.) 4. to manage to get away from; elude [to bilk the police] n. 1. a bilking …   English World dictionary

  • Bilk — Bilk, n. 1. A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk. [1913 Webster] 2. A cheat; a trick; a hoax. Hudibras. [1913 Webster] 3. Nonsense; vain words. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 4. A person who tricks a creditor; an… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bilk´er — bilk «bihlk», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to cheat; defraud: »The purported racket that bilked insurance companies of $100,000 (New York Times). 2. to avoid payment of (a debt). 3. to evade; escape from. 4. to balk or spoil an opponent s score in… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Bilk — Bilk, Dorf mit Sternwarte bei Düsseldorf, s.d …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Bilk — Bilk, Stadtteil von Düsseldorf, mit einer durch Benzenberg 1844 begründeten Sternwarte, die infolge der Entdeckung vieler Asteroiden (seit 1852) durch den Astronomen Luther berühmt wurde …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Bilk — Bilk, Vorort von Düsseldorf, mit Sternwarte …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • bilk — I verb appropriate fraudulently, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chisel, circumvent, cozen, cully, deceive, defraud, delude, dupe, elude, embezzle, ensnare, entangle, evade, exploit, foist upon, fool, fraud, hoax, hoodwink …   Law dictionary

  • bilk — (v.) 1650s, from or along with the noun (1630s), first used as a cribbage term; as a verb, to spoil (someone s) score. Origin obscure, it was believed in 17c. to be a word signifying nothing; perhaps it s a thinned form of BALK (Cf. balk) to… …   Etymology dictionary

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