bilk

Bilk is defined as to swindle or get out of paying.

(verb)

An example of bilk is to slip away without paying the check.

The definition of a bilk is a person who cheats or swindles, or an act of cheating or swindling.

(noun)

An example of a bilk is a person who never pays in his share when going out to eat.

See bilk in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

Origin: ? altered < balk

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See bilk in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb bilked, bilk·ing, bilks

a. To defraud, cheat, or swindle: made millions bilking wealthy clients on art sales.
b. To evade payment of: bilk one's debts.
To thwart or frustrate: “Fate . . . may be to a certain extent bilked” (Thomas Carlyle).
To elude.

noun

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Origin: Perhaps alteration of balk

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