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verb (used with object)

to defraud; cheat: He bilked the government of almost a million dollars.

to evade payment of (a debt).

to frustrate: a career bilked by poor health.

to escape from; elude: to bilk one's pursuers.

noun

a cheat; swindler.

a trick; fraud; deceit.

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Origin:
1625–35; of obscure origin

Related forms

bilk·er, noun

Synonyms
1. swindle, trick, dupe, fleece, rook.

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He can grow rhapsodic over learning of someone who can shamelessly bilk the boss's son.

Hitler had determined to bilk his creditors out of capitals and tried to annihilate them.

Others are sent in an attempt to bilk money from people to damage reputations.

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bilk (bɪlk)

—vb
1.	to balk; thwart
2.	(often foll by of) to cheat or deceive, esp to avoid making payment to
3.	to escape from; elude
4.	cribbage to play a card that hinders (one's opponent) from scoring in his or her crib

—n
5.	a swindle or cheat
6.	a person who swindles or cheats

[C17: perhaps variant of balk]

'bilker

—n

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Word Origin & History

bilk

1650s, from the noun (1630s), first used as a cribbage term. Origin obscure, it was believed in 17c. to be "a word signifying nothing," perhaps of Arabic origin; but it is rather perhaps a thinned form of balk. Meaning "to defraud" is first recorded 1670s.

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"If you look into your own mind, which are you, Don Quixote or Sancho Panza? Almost certainly you are both. There is one part of you that wishes to be a hero or a saint, but another part of you is a fat little man who sees very clearly the advantages of staying alive with a whole skin. He is your unofficial self, the voice of the belly protesting against the soul, his tastes lie towards safety, soft beds, no work, pots of beer and women with "voluptuous" figures. He it is who punctures your fine attitudes and urges you to look after Number One, to be unfaithful to your wife, to bilk your debts, and so on and so forth. Whether you allow yourself to be influenced by him is a different question. But it is simply a lie to say that he is not part of you, just as it is a lie to say that Don Quixote is not part of you either."

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