Bilk
English
Pronunciation
Verb
Bilk (third-person singular simple present Bilks, present participle Bilking, simple past and past participle Bilked)
- (transitive) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud by not fulfilling an obligation; to leave in the lurch.
- Johnny plans to bilk his creditor.
Thesaurus
avoid, baffle, balk, beat, beguile of, bunco, burn, cast down, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvent, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, cross, dash, defeat, defeat expectation, defraud, diddle, disappoint, disillusion, dissatisfy, do, do in, do out of, dodge, double, duck, elude, eschew, euchre, evade, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, foil, frustrate, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, let down, mulct, overreach, pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon, rook, ruin, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, shake, shave, shortchange, shun, shy, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, tantalize, tease, thimblerig, throw a fight, thwart, victimize
Translations
- French: laisser tomber (quelqu'un)
- Norwegian: la i stikken (no)