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bilking Definition


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bilk
verb bilked, bilking
    1. To avoid paying someone money one owes them.
    2. To cheat or trick them; to make them lose something, usually money, by dishonest means.
      Form: bilk someone out of something (especially)
    3. To elude; to escape from someone or something.
Derivative: bilker
noun
    Etymology: 17c, originally a term in cribbage: perhaps a form of balk.



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