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   bilk

   /bɪlk/

   verb

   • 1. obtain or withhold money from (someone) unfairly or by deceit; cheat or defraud: informal "an apparently benevolent elderly gentleman bilked me of twenty dollars"
   • ▪ obtain (money) fraudulently: "some businesses bilk thousands of dollars from unsuspecting elderly consumers"
   • 2. evade; elude. archaic

   Word Origin mid 17th century (originally used in cribbage meaning ‘spoil one's opponent's score’): perhaps a variant of balk.

   Derivatives

   • 1. bilker noun

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   What does Bilk mean?

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   What does the word 'bilked' mean?

   • The word 'bilked' means to swindle or cheat. It also means to escape or flee leaving unpaid debts, or to elude. For example: 'The investors were bilked out of millions by crooked management.' or 'Nate bilked the bank by his failure to make payments.'.

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   What does it mean to bilk someone out of money?

   • To bilk someone out of something, especially money, means to cheat them out of it. They are charged with bilking investors out of millions of dollars. [V n + out of] Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 3. 5. 6. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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   What does Bilk mean in a card game?

   • Strategically, then, it's wisest for the dealer's opponents to discard the cards most likely to "balk," or put a check on, the dealer's score (or in other words, the ones least likely to contribute to point-making combinations). Etymologists theorize that bilk may have originated as an alteration of that card-game balk.

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   Where did Bilk come from?

   • Language historians aren't sure where bilk originated, but they have noticed that its earliest uses occur in contexts relating to the game of cribbage. Part of the scoring in cribbage involves each player adding cards from their hand to a pile of discards called the " crib." At the end of a hand, the dealer gets any points in the crib.

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   What is bilking a cabman?

   • That is the kind of conduct known as "bilking". Both employees and employers have been bilked by that agency. The old ploy of bilking the cabman is an example of making off without payment. The third is bilking; that is to say, dishonestly making off without paying. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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   1. : to block the free development of : frustrate. fate bilks their hopes. 2. a. : to cheat out of something valuable : defraud. bilking investors out of their life savings. : to evade payment of or to. bilks his creditors. c. : to obtain (something) by defrauding someone.

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   1. to balk; thwart. 2. (often foll by of) to cheat or deceive, esp to avoid making payment to. 3. to escape from; elude. 4. cribbage. to play a card that hinders (one's opponent) from scoring in his or her crib. noun. 5. a swindle or cheat. 6. a person who swindles or cheats. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.

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   verb (used with object) to defraud; cheat: He bilked the government of almost a million dollars. Synonyms: rook, fleece, dupe, trick, swindle. to evade payment of (a debt). to frustrate: a career bilked by poor health. to escape from; elude: to bilk one's pursuers.

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   To bilk someone is slightly different from plain robbing them, though the effect is the same; it implies a non-violent, subtle and devious method masquerading as legitimate. Bernie Madoff, the Ponzi scheme king, was a classic bilker.

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   1. to defraud; cheat. 2. to evade payment of or to: to bilk a creditor. 3. to frustrate: a career bilked by poor health. 4. to escape from; elude. n.