Bilk

Definitions: Bilk

Bilk

Verb

1. Cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money.

2. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent".

3. Evade payment to; "He bilked his creditors".

4. Escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to elude me".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bilk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bilk

Deception

Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.

Disappointment

Disappoint; frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure); crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish).

Stealing

Swindle, peculate, embezzle; sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece; defraud; obtain under false pretenses; live by one's wits.

Crosswords: Bilk

TV-Piraten - Sender Freies Bilk (1983)

Stranger On The Shore (Instrumental) (performing artist: Mr. Acker Bilk)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Der Sudetenland-Anschluss 1938 : Zeitgeschichte im Bilk (reference)

• License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Best of Acker Bilk [GNP] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), mashtrim (blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غش (adulterate, adulteration, cheat, cheating, copy, debase, deceit, deceive, deception, defraudation, diddle, falsify, fudge, jiggery pokery, nobble, rig, sell, short, sting, swindle), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile). (various references)

Bulgarian 

завличам (nip), измамник (ambidextrous, bilker, cheat, counterfeit, deceiver, double-dealer, fake, fiddler, fraud, gyp, impostor, intake, juggler, ringer, rook, sharp, sharpy, slicker, swindler). (various references)

Chinese 

詐騙 (cheat; bilk). (various references)

Czech

upláchnout (do a bunk, escape, pop off, scape). (various references)

Dutch

bedotten (cheat, fool, hoax, mystify, take in, trick). (various references)

Esperanto

ĉarlatani (cheat, take in). (various references)

Farsi 

چرند (Baloney, Corny, Crap, Hokum, Inane, Jive, Ludicrous, Nonsensical, Rigmarole, Shenanigan, Silly, Stuff, Trashy, Unmeaning, Windy), گول (Cajole, Cajolery, Cheat, Crimp, Deception, Gull, Humbug, Jape). (various references)

French

blouser, rouler, mystifier, filouter. (various references)

German

beschwindeln (bamboozle, cheat, diddle, swindle, tell a fib, tell a lie). (various references)

Greek 

ξεφεύγω (dodge, escape, evade, get away, get out, leak, slip), εξαπατώ (beguile, cheat, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, fake out, gull, pup, swindle, thimblering, to defraud, victimize), απάτη (beguilement, cheat, circumvention, con, deceit, deception, delusion, fake, fallacy, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, hoax, humbug, humbuggery, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, scam, sham, spoof, swindle, swindling, toll fraud, trick, trickery), απατώ (bamboozle, beguile, bluff, cheat, chisel, circumvent, con, deceive, dupe, fool, gouge, gyp, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, rook, sham, shave, shortchange, spoof, swindle, trick), απατεώνασ (beguiler, bilker, blackleg, cheat, crook, fraud, hoodwinker, imposture, jockey, knave, swindler), αποφεύγω να πληρώσω. (various references)

Hungarian

elbliccel (to bilk), csaló (abuser, blackleg, bobber, cheat, colubrine, crook, deceitful, double-dealer, fake, faker, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, gouge, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, jockey, juggler, leg, masquerader, picaroon, piker, rogue, roguish, rook, rooky, shark, sharper, skinner, snide, swindler, trickster). (various references)

Italian

evadere (despatch, dispatch, escape, evade, get away, run away). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

食い逃�' (running away without paying for food). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くいに�' (running away without paying for food). (various references)

Manx

jannoo molteyrys er. (various references)

Pig Latin

ilkbay

Portuguese

vigarista (adventurer, biter, black list, cheat, pettifogging, pettish, sharp, sharper, slicker, swindler, trickster), lograr (cheat, chouse, circumvent, cod, cozen, deceive, diddle, dupe, fob, fool about, Fox, gammon, goulash, gypsum, inveiglement, Jocko, let into, mystify, outlandish, overreach, put it over, spoof, succeed, trick), fraude (brogue, cheat, cross, deceit, deception, embezzlement, evasion, fraud, graft, guile, humbug, inverse, ruse, sham, skulduggery, spoof, tax evasion, toll fraud, trickery, wile), fazercharlatanismo (cheat, take in), charlatanear (cheat, take in), calotear. (various references)

Romanian

trage pe sfoarã (chisel, con, diddle, do, do brown, do the dirty, double cross, fob, fool, Fox, gammon, impose, kid, let in, nobble, take in, trick, wangle), nu plãti cuiva o datorie, escroc (biter, blackguard, blackleg, carpet bagger, charlatan, cheat, crook, desperado, double-dealer, duffer, faker, fraud, gambler, gamester, gouge, gyp, impostor, jockey, juggler, knave, mountebank, rogue, rook, scab, shark, sharp, sharper, snap, swindler). (various references)

Russian 

обманывать (befool, beguile, cheat, deceive, deceiving, defraud, delude, disappoint, do, double cross, flimflam, fob, fool into thinking, gag, gull, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, kid, mump, practise deceit, practise deception, prey, pull a fast one, swindle, victimize), жулик (bilker, cheat, con, faker, gyp, phoney, phony, rapscallion, ratbag, rogue, sharper, slicker, swindler). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prevariti (bamboozle, beguile, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, circumvent, con, deceive, diddle, double cross, flimflam, fool, get round, gyp, hoodwink, mulct, rook, rope, rope in, screw, set up, skunk, stick, string along, take in, trick, victimize), prevara (blind, bubble, cheat, chicanery, confidence trick, deceit, deception, dodge, double cross, dupery, eyewash, fake, flimflam, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, plant, racket, ruse, setup, trick, trumpery). (various references)

Spanish

escaparse (abscond, break away, break out, escape, flee, get away, get out, leak, leak out, make tracks, run away, sling one's hook, take flight, take to one's heels, to break away, wriggle, wriggle out), engañar (bamboozle, be deceptive, befool, beguile, belie, betray, bite, bluff, buffalo, cheat, cheat on, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, delude, do a room, double cross, dupe, fob, fool, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, kill, mislead, mystify, outsmart, pull a fast one, put across, put off, put over, put upon, spoof, stay, swindle, take in, trick, while away). (various references)

Swedish

smita ifrån (duck, shirk). (various references)

Thai

ฉ้อโกง (diddle out of, euchre, gyp). (various references)

Turkish

borç takmak, dolandırmak (bunco, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do down, do in, double cross, flimflam, gammon, gold brick, gull, gyp, have, hornswoggle, jockey, Nick, nobble, racketeer, rook, rotate, sell smb. a gold brick, sell smb. a pup, spoof, swindle, take in), aldatmak (bamboozle, be unfaithful, cheat, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, fake, feint, finagle, Fox, gammon, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, palter, play smb. false, put it over on, sell, sell smb. a packet, sell smb. a pup, spoof, string, stuff smb., take for a ride, take in, trick, two time, victimize), ödememek (not to pay, repudiate). (various references)

Ukranian 

ухилятися від сплати, шахрайство (bamboozle, cheat, deception, dishonesty, dodge, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, imposture, pettifogging, racket, racketeering, rascality, roguery, shave, skulduggery), обман (bam, bamboozle, beguilement, bluff, bunko, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, foist, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gouge, guile, hanky panky, hoax, imposture, juggle, jugglery, lie, overreach, phoney, phony, pretence, pretense, ruse, sell, sham, swindle, trickery, victimization, wile), обдурювати (befool, cheat, chouse, cod, cog, counterfeit, deceive, doodle, dupe, flimflam, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, jockey, juggle, prey, put upon, queer, sell short), пусті слова. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bilk": bilked, bilker, bilkers, bilking, bilks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bilk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: balak, Balkh, Belk, bick, bihl, Bijl, bik, bikky, bil, Bila, bild, Bilek, Bileka, bilg, bili, bilke, bilko, bilky, biln, bilo, bilt, bilx, bily, Bioko, Biolm, bli, blig, blih, blik, blisk, bliv, blix, bolk, buluk, Byk, byl, bylak, bylo, bytlm, ibek, Ibl, jilk, nilk, pilk, rilk, vilk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ilk, lib.

-2 letters: bi, li.

+1 letter: bilks, blink, kibla.

+2 letters: belike, beylik, bilked, bilker, blinks, kibble, kiblah, kiblas.

+3 letters: backlit, balkier, balkily, balking, batlike, bedlike, beelike, beyliks, biblike, bilkers, bilking, blinked, blinker, bowlike, boxlike, brickle, briskly, budlike, bulkier, bulkily, bulking, hoblike, inkblot, kalimba, kibbled, kibbles, kiblahs, kilobar, kilobit, kolbasi, lambkin, likable, limbeck, linkboy, niblick, niblike, obelisk, riblike, skiable, tublike, weblike.

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