Usually means: Cheat someone out of money.
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  1. bilk: Merriam-Webster
  2. bilk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bilk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bilk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bilk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bilk, bilk: Wordnik
  7. bilk: Wiktionary
  8. bilk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bilk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bilk: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bilk, bilk: Dictionary.com
  12. bilk (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Bilk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bilk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bilk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. bilk: Rhymezone
  17. Bilk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bilk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Bilk: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. bilk: FreeDictionary.org
  21. bilk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. bilk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. bilk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. bilk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. bilk: Legal dictionary

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  1. bilk: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bilk: A Word A Day
  2. bilk: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bilk, bilk, bilk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. BILK: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
noun:  (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
noun:  (obsolete) A cheat or swindler.
verb:  (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
verb:  (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
verb:  (intransitive, UK) To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To evade, elude.

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