bilk

Meaning

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. (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).
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.

Synonyms

cheat

trick

swindle

defraud

bamboozle

deceive

thwart

rook

frustrate

hoodwink

gyp

scotch

baffle

gull

cross

take in

con

foil

queer

hoax

spoil

elude

fleece

evade

finagle

dupe

swindler

beguile

victimize

cozen

spoof

embezzle

slip

sham

wheel

🛞

jockey

humbug

imposture

chisel

diddle

hinder

rip off

delude

double-cross

circumvent

fool

fraud

gouge

bluff

roll

Translations

εξαπατώ

charlatanear

απάτη

rouler

engañar

evitar

beschwindeln

απατεώνας

Kurpfuscherei betreiben

quacksalbern

bedotten

fazer charlatanismo

zunichte machen

wälzen

defraudar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɪlk/

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk.