bilk
/bɪlk/
bilk noun: the spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
Noun
bilk (plural bilks)
Verb
bilk (third-person singular simple present bilks, present participle bilking, simple past and past participle bilked)
- To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
- To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
- 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.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 615
- Mr. Gallagher, who went by the nickname Doc, pleaded guilty on Aug. 31 to several charges connected to what prosecutors described as a Ponzi scheme that lasted nearly 10 years and bilked older people of their retirement savings.2021 November 2, Maria Cramer, “Texas Radio Host Who Bilked Listeners Out of Millions Is Sentenced to Life”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- Synonyms:
- abuse, beglammer, counterfeit, deceive, catch, trap into, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, jiff
- To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
- To evade, elude.
bilk meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
bilk in Urdu
- دھوکا دینا
bilk in Malayalam
- swindle, cheat, defraud
- കളിപ്പിക്കുക, ചതിക്കുക, വഞ്ചിക്കുക, ചുങ്കിക്കുക, പിരട്ടുക, നയവഞ്ചന ചെയ്യുക
bilk in Kannada
- ಎಡ್ಡುಗೊಳಿಸು, ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳು
Synonyms of bilk
- beglammer
- counterfeit
- deceive
- catch
- trap into
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- feign
- jiff
- lead astray
Forms of bilk
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bilks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bilks |
| present participle | bilking |
| past participle | bilked |
| past | bilked |
Origin of bilk
Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk.
Words formed from bilk
Words that rhyme with bilk
Questions about bilk
- What does bilk mean?
- Bilk means the spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
- What is bilk in Urdu?
- Bilk in Urdu is دھوکا دینا. See Bilk meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is bilk?
- Bilk can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce bilk?
- Bilk is pronounced /bɪlk/.
- What is the plural of bilk?
- The plural of bilk is bilks.
Words near bilk in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bilk (page history and authors); bilk (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bilk (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); bilk (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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