The California governor candidate hit back hard against charges she bilked a Hispanic housekeeper.
Don't tell me you bilked 'em all so 'andily on settin' that 'ouse afire.
He said he thought he had been bilked, and that the money would never be turned over.
She threw the paint-stained duster into the studio stove, stuck out her tongue at the sleeper, and whispered, "bilked!"
To have a female confidence game played on a man would leave less of a sting than to be bilked by a male.
But she is almost twenty; she is amazingly swift behind the bar, and no man has yet bilked her of a penny.
She threw the paint-stained duster into the studio stove, stuck out her tongue at the sleeper, and whispered, 'bilked!'
Were the owners and occupiers of the blocks of offices paid for them, or were they bilked like the hotel proprietors?
1650s, from or along with the noun (1630s), first used as a cribbage term; as a verb, "to spoil (someone's) score." Origin obscure, it was believed in 17c. to be "a word signifying nothing;" perhaps it s a thinned form of balk "to hinder." Meaning "to defraud" is first recorded 1670s. Related: Bilked; bilking.
