(v. t.) 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.
(n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
(n.) A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
(n.) Nonsense; vain words.
(n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Trump has always seen working people as nothing more than a means to an end: labor to be exploited, customers to be bilked and human capital to be used and then discarded.
(2) In lieu of a picture of Osvaldo bounding around in his billycock, here's some great bowler hats of our time: Charlie Chaplin ... Oscar Wilde ... Mr Acker Bilk, and ... Stan Laurel and Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre.
(3) The Britons being bilked right now possess the character on which this country once prided itself.
(4) It seems less fun to me, but then doubtless someone said the same when HMV's flagship Oxford Street store in London removed its listening booths into which people once crowded to hear the latest from Acker Bilk.
(5) In 1962, Stranger on the Shore [a UK and US hit by jazz clarinetist Acker Bilk] blighted my life.
(6) Shareholders would lose nothing from the little wangle; it was merely the public purse that would be bilked of precious millions.
Bisk
Definition:
(n.) Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together.