bilks

Verb

bilk (third-person singular simple present bilks, present participle bilking, simple past and past participle bilked)

1. (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
2. (transitive) 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

3. (UK, intransitive) 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.
4. (archaic, transitive) To evade, elude.

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