(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.
Ilk
Definition:
(a.) Same; each; every.
Example Sentences:
(1) We show that preservation of the correct PE carboxyl-terminal amino acid sequence, REDLK, allows the toxins containing TGF alpha carboxyl inserts to retain significant cytotoxicity against target cells, since another molecule (PE4E-TGF alpha-ILK) containing a nonfunctional carboxyl-terminal sequence was over 100-fold less active.
(2) We need to get back something of that ilk – where each team has three or four players from the home countries at the start of every match."
(3) Fashion's current preoccupation with art is effectively the death knell of the minimalist look – most art (Donald Judd and his ilk aside) is about getting messy.
(4) It is as honest as the report that emerged the same day from the world’s climate scientists, which demonstrated that if Exxon Mobil and its ilk keep their promise to dig up their reserves and burn them, then the planet will no longer function effectively.
(5) It's harder to romanticise living in such a dwelling in NYC – a Londoner can live in a bedsit and be reminded of Fleur and her ilk, but a New Yorker might be apt to think of SROs – but not impossible; in order to survive here, you have to develop the ability to romanticise just about anything.
(6) It's a little sweetly, wishy-washy in the body, but, for a beer of its ilk, it has a real thirst-quenching bitterness to it.
(7) It is a much more natural creed for rightists, like Charles, who dream of an ancient pastoral world where material goods were the prerogative of his ilk.
(8) Never mind that it was the overwhelmingly Tory shire votes of Jacob Rees-Mogg ’s ilk that swung the referendum, while two thirds of Labour voters were remainers.
(9) Some of us enjoyed it so much that we were all for Griffin and his ilk appearing on television all the time, purely in the spirit of political fair play, you understand.
(10) The trouble is that these supposed victims are very, very able to defend themselves and their ilk.
(11) You go to an amazing venue, there are influential people in the room of all ilks, people you wouldn’t normally meet in your day job.
(12) But it's clear that Chimpanzee and its ilk have strayed from the evolutionary path of nature documentary film-making.
(13) Forbes and his ilk have reached a sort of quantum theory of food: the more they look, the more they see.
(14) Democracy forgets you, no one cares what you think, and governments will spend a lot less on you and your ilk.
(15) Perhaps what Claire Alexander at the University of Manchester calls the “jovial bigotry” of Farage and his ilk has helped channel their rage.
(16) "If our critical culture handled films of this ilk with something other than kid gloves, we might not have to continually address these same, tired questions.
(17) But there is no need to apologise to somebody of that ilk.” Leicester are on an 11-game winless run and are bottom of the Premier League going into Saturday’s match at West Ham United, who are fourth.
(18) He told the Guardian: “I am delighted that Eddie Redmayne won [a Golden Globe for best actor], but we can’t just have a culture dominated by Eddie Redmayne and James Blunt and their ilk.
(19) A Mail Online columnist declared : “Next time you hear someone say we are safer IN the EU – remember Brussels.” And in an astonishing removal of guilt from the terrorist murderers, added: “Merkel – and her ilk – blew up Brussels.” I will vote to remain within the European Union, even though I am critical of its current incarnation and want to change it.
(20) Though frequently labelled super-injunctions, they are not of the same ilk as the case that prompted the original coining of the term, because it referred to the fact that the very existence of the injunction must remain secret.