bilk

Mane (English)

Noun

1. The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
2. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
3. (obsolete) A cheat or swindler.

Verb

1. To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
2. To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
3. 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. To evade, elude.

Synonyms

cheat

trick

swindle

defraud

deceive

bamboozle

gull

gyp

baffle

thwart

hoodwink

rook

scotch

frustrate

foil

con

queer

cross

spoil

hoax

take in

elude

finagle

fleece

evade

dupe

chisel

swindler

roll

rip off

beguile

humbug

diddle

embezzle

victimize

circumvent

wheel

🛞

imposture

fraud

cozen

bluff

jockey

gouge

delude

sham

double-cross

slip

fool

spoof

hinder

impose

imposition

incapacitate

inhibit

juggle

knave

leak

make impossible

mislead

mulct

mystify

obstruct

obviate

outsmart

overcharge

prevent

pup

restrain

rule out

screw

shark

🦈

shave

shortchange

short-change

shut

stymie

stymy

swindling

thimblerig

trample down

trammel

trickery

welch

whipsaw

double cross

play tricks

eat up one’s fortune

shirk payment

forefend

humbuggery

flim-flam

stop

🛑

jiggery pokery

arrest

avert

bar

beguilement

beguiler

betray

bilker

blackleg

block

blockade

block out

block up

bunco

check

chouse

circumvention

cod

cramp

creep in

crook

debar

deceit

deception

deflect

defrauder

delusion

deter

disable

dodge

drive

embarrass

err

exploit

fake

fallacy

fiddle

forbid

forestall

forfend

gammon

get away

get out

gip

goldbrick

guile

head off

help

hoodwinker

impede

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/bɪlk/

Etîmolojî (English)

Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk.