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The Meaning of bilk

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
  • (n.) A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
  • (n.) Nonsense; vain words.
  • (n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.

Synonyms

baffle , thwart , frustrate , spoil , foil , elude , evade , cross , queer , scotch , vitiate , mar , sweep , dumbfound , plunder , scupper , mystify , cut through , pamper , flub , span , dun , rape , crucify , baby , regulate , bedevil , itch , screw up , ball up , indulge , interbreed , stick , cut across , corrupt , get over , deflower , puzzle , gravel , violate , beat , mollycoddle , bungle , intersect , bollocks up , fumble , rag , blow , bollix , torment , amaze , bewilder , fuck up , coddle , cosset , peril , featherbed , crossbreed , get , louse up , perplex , botch up , bodge , traverse , bobble , muff , bollocks , pass over , pose , fluff , vex , mishandle , endanger , foul up , stupefy , flummox , track , hybridize , cover , despoil , muck up , bumble , mess up , impair , bollix up , botch , get across , expose , go bad , hybridise , cocker , nonplus , fudge , duck , hedge , dodge , skirt , circumvent , parry , put off , sidestep , escape , cheat , rip off , chisel

Rhymes

buttermilk , ilk , milk , milke , schilke , silk , wilk , wilke