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- Dictionarybilk/bɪlk/
verb
- 1. obtain or withhold money from (someone) unfairly or by deceit; cheat or defraud: informal "an apparently benevolent elderly gentleman bilked me of twenty dollars"
- 2. evade; elude. archaic
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BILK definition: 1. to get money from someone unfairly or dishonestly: 2. to get money from someone unfairly or…. Learn more.
1. : to block the free development of : frustrate. fate bilks their hopes. 2. a. : to cheat out of something valuable : defraud. bilking investors out of their life savings. : to evade payment of or to. bilks his creditors. c. : to obtain (something) by defrauding someone.
verb (used with object) to defraud; cheat: He bilked the government of almost a million dollars. Synonyms: rook, fleece, dupe, trick, swindle. to evade payment of (a debt). to frustrate: a career bilked by poor health. to escape from; elude: to bilk one's pursuers.
to get money from someone unfairly or dishonestly: He bilked clients out of tens of millions of dollars. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Cheating & tricking. anti-fraud. bad faith. bamboozle. blackmail. blag. deceive. diddle. feint. flannel. game-fixing. grifter. gull. have an eye to/for the main chance idiom. prankster. pretextual.
To bilk someone is slightly different from plain robbing them, though the effect is the same; it implies a non-violent, subtle and devious method masquerading as legitimate. Bernie Madoff, the Ponzi scheme king, was a classic bilker.
To bilk someone out of something, especially money, means to cheat them out of it. [ US , informal ] They are charged with bilking investors out of millions of dollars.
1. a. To defraud, cheat, or swindle: made millions bilking wealthy clients on art sales. b. To evade payment of: bilk one's debts. 2. To thwart or frustrate: "Fate ... may be to a certain extent bilked" (Thomas Carlyle). 3. To elude. n. 1. One who cheats. 2. Obsolete A hoax or swindle. [Perhaps alteration of balk .] bilk′er n.
To cheat or swindle; defraud. Webster's New World. To thwart or frustrate. American Heritage. More Verb Definitions (5) Synonyms: baffle. cross. foil. scotch. spoil. queer. thwart. frustrate. evade. elude.
Definition of bilk verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Jun 2, 2024 · bilk (third-person singular simple present bilks, present participle bilking, simple past and past participle bilked) ( transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage. ( transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone). Synonyms: see Thesaurus: deceive.
