bilk

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
2. noun A deception, a hoax.
3. noun A cheat or swindler.
4. verb To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
5. verb To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
6. verb 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.
7. verb To evade, elude.

Similar words

evade elude spoil thwart scotch frustrate baffle foil queer cross

Often followed by

the and him creek of them a their people

Word family

bilked bilker bilkers bilking bilks