bilking
bilking is the present participle and gerund of bilk.
Meaning of bilk
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
- 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.
Noun
bilking (countable and uncountable, plural bilkings)
- The act of one who bilks (in any sense).
- Such excursions can be the sites of an orientalizing vision that has much worse consequences than the bilkings of one flimflam man.2014, Randall Halle, The Europeanization of Cinema, page 150
Forms of bilking
| plural | bilkings |
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Questions about bilking
- What does bilking mean?
- Bilking means the act of one who bilks (in any sense).
- What is bilking the present participle and gerund of?
- Bilking is the present participle and gerund of bilk.
- What part of speech is bilking?
- Bilking is a noun.
- What is the plural of bilking?
- The plural of bilking is bilkings.
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