bilk

bilk
    v 1: cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
    2: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What
       ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing
       September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: {thwart},
       {queer}, {spoil}, {scotch}, {foil}, {cross}, {frustrate},
       {baffle}, {bilk}]
    3: evade payment to; "He bilked his creditors"
    4: escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the
       police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event
       evades explanation" [syn: {elude}, {evade}, {bilk}]
    

Bilk \Bilk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bilked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bilking}.] [Origin unknown. Cf. {Balk}.]
   To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by
   nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give
   the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor. --Thackeray.
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Bilk \Bilk\, n.
   1. A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his
      score; a balk.
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   2. A cheat; a trick; a hoax. --Hudibras.
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   3. Nonsense; vain words. --B. Jonson.
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   4. A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky
      person. --Marryat.
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78 Moby Thesaurus words for "bilk":
      avoid, baffle, balk, beat, beguile of, bunco, burn, cast down,
      cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvent, cog,
      cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, cross, dash, defeat,
      defeat expectation, defraud, diddle, disappoint, disillusion,
      dissatisfy, do, do in, do out of, dodge, double, duck, elude,
      eschew, euchre, evade, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, foil,
      frustrate, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus,
      let down, mulct, overreach, pack the deal, pigeon,
      practice fraud upon, rook, ruin, scam, screw, sell gold bricks,
      shake, shave, shortchange, shun, shy, stack the cards, stick,
      sting, swindle, take a dive, tantalize, tease, thimblerig,
      throw a fight, thwart, victimize