To cheat. Let us bilk the rattling cove; let us cheat the hackney coachman of his fare. Cant. Bilking a coachman, a box-keeper, and a poor whore, were formerly, among men of the town, thought gallant actions.
·noun Nonsense; vain words. II. Bilk ·noun A cheat; a trick; a hoax. III. Bilk ·noun A person who ...
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