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BilkTo cheat, to obtain goods and decamp without paying for them. “The landlord explained it by saying that `a bilk' is a man who never misses a meal and never pays a cent.” —A. K. McClure: Rocky Mountains letter xxii. p. 211. To “bilk” in cribbage is to spoil your adversaries' score; to balk him. Perhaps the two words are mere variants. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Bilk from Fact Monster:
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