'Bilk' definitions:
Definition of 'bilk'
(from WordNet)
verb
Cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
verb
Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk]
verb
Evade payment to; "He bilked his creditors"
verb
Definition of 'Bilk'
From: GCIDE
- 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 untrustworthy, tricky person. --Marryat. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bilk'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'bilk'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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