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Definitions for bilk
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Princeton's WordNet
bilkverb
cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilkverb
hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
bilkverb
evade payment to
"He bilked his creditors"
elude, evade, bilkverb
escape, either physically or mentally
"The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
Wiktionary
bilkverb
To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud by not fulfilling an obligation; to leave in the lurch.
Johnny plans to bilk his creditor.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To BILKverb
To cheat; to defraud, by running in debt, and avoiding payment.
Etymology: derived by Mr. Edward Lye from the Gothick, bilaican.
Bilk’d stationers for yeomen stood prepar’d. Dryden.
What comedy, what farce can more delight,
Than grinning hunger, and the pleasing sight
Of your bilk’d hopes? John Dryden, Juvenal, sat. v.
Wikipedia
Bilk
Bilk is a quarter (Stadtteil) of Düsseldorf. Together with Oberbilk, Unterbilk, Hamm, Flehe and Volmerswerth it constitutes Borough 3, which is the most populous borough of Düsseldorf. Bilk has an area of 6.07 km2 (2.34 sq mi), and 41,150 inhabitants (2020). Heinrich-Heine-University is in Bilk.
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bilk
To bilk means to cheat or defraud someone, often out of money, or to evade or escape from something or someone. It can also refer to thwarting or frustrating someone's plans or expectations.
Webster Dictionary
Bilkverb
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
Bilknoun
a thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk
Bilknoun
a cheat; a trick; a hoax
Bilknoun
nonsense; vain words
Bilknoun
a person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Bilk
bilk, v.t. to elude; to cheat. [Perh. a dim. of Balk; at first a term in cribbage.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bilk in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bilk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of bilk in a Sentence
The amendment says, if you read it, that you have to complete your sentence. And I think most people understand you can be sentenced to jail, probation, restitution if you harm someone. You can be sentenced with a fine. People that bilk people out of money, sometimes that's an appropriate sentence. That's what the constitutional provision said.
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