Crossword clues for bilked
bilked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bilk \Bilk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bilked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bilking.] [Origin unknown. Cf. Balk.]
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.
--Thackeray.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: bilk)
Usage examples of "bilked".
He came to Tennyson with Wardle and Schanz in the hope of finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, or at least a town full of folk ready willing and delighted to be bilked at games of chance in which no chance was allowed on his side.
Had he upped anchor immediately the last barrel was winched down into the last lighter, he most likely now would be laughing over his tipple somewhere telling the funny story of how he bilked a black savage in far southern Ifriqah, but he did not.
We are getting bilked in so many ways that listing them all might get me charged with inciting a riot.