bilk
pronunciation
How to pronounce bilk in British English:
UK [bɪlk]
How to pronounce bilk in American English:
US [bɪlk]
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- Verb:
- cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- evade payment to
- escape, either physically or mentally
Word Origin
- bilk (v.)
- 1650s, from or along with the noun (1630s), first used as a cribbage term; as a verb, "to spoil (someone's) score." Origin obscure, it was believed in 17c. to be "a word signifying nothing;" perhaps it s a thinned form of balk "to hinder." Meaning "to defraud" is first recorded 1670s. Related: Bilked; bilking.
Example
- 1. Pattern renovates " network bilk " caused huge loss to american public and society .
- 2. Use the victim privacy information that comes secretly to have bilk , extortionary case many .
- 3. Which have the world bilk the tang dynasty monk flesh ?
- 4. I 'm not stupid , like the people you bilk .
- 5. Bilk those who went missing plane was detained by airport .