[bɪlk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- obtain or withhold money from (someone) unfairly or by deceit; cheat or defraud
(e.g: an apparently benevolent elderly gentleman bilked me of twenty dollars)

- evade; elude


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 17th century (originally used in cribbage meaning ‘spoil one's opponent's score’): perhaps a variant of balk