| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To cheat, defraud, demarcate, gouge or beguile.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To cadge, sneak, deprive, filch or steal. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To trick, wangle, rook, spoof or dodge. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To deceive, bamboozle, diddle, hoodwink or overreach. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To lure or allure.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Present participle conjugation of the verb bilk.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (bilk) | 1. Cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money.[Wordnet]. 2. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.[Wordnet]. 3. Evade payment to; "He bilked his creditors".[Wordnet]. 4. Escape, either physically or mentally.[Wordnet]. 5. 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.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: bilking, bilked, bilks, bilker, bilkers, bilkingly and bilkedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BILKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1765. (references) |
Specialty Definition: BILKING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Frustrating; defrauding.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of bilk. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: bilk
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Acker Bilk | Acker Bilk (often referred to as Mr. Acker Bilk) is one of the world's leading Jazz Clarinetists. His trademarks are his goatee beard, bowler hat and striped waistcoat. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: bilk
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| To bilk | Slang in 1811 | TO BILK. To cheat. Let us bilk the rattling cove; let us cheat the hackney coachman of his fare. Cant. Bilking a coachman, a box-keeper, and a poor whore, were formerly, among men of the town, thought gallant actions. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: bilk | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Acker Bilk | 10 | Acker Bilk | 10 | |
| Bilk | 6 | Bilk | 6 | |
| Bilk (beverage) | 4 | Bilk (beverage) | 4 | |
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