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bilknoun a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of valuepeople who lost money in the scheme discovered that the investment company was a fake and the "owner" just a bilk bilker, cheat, cheater, chiseler(or chiseller), confidence man, cozener, defrauder, dodger, fakir, finagler, fraudster(chiefly British), hoaxer, scammer, scamster, shark, sharper, sharpie(or sharpy), skinner, swindler, tricker, trickster double-crosser, double-dealerbluffer, charlatan, fake, faker, humbug, impostor(or imposter), mountebank, phony(also phoney), pretender, quack, quacksalver, ringer, shamadventurer, fox, gamesman, knave, prankster, rascal, roguefast-talker, slick, slicker, slickster, slyboots, smoothy(or smoothie), wheeler-dealerplotter, schemer, sneak, sneakerblackleg, cardsharp(or cardsharper) bilkverbto rob by the use of trickery or threatsan investigation revealed that the garage had been bilking motorists for repairs that had never been made beat, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose(slang), hustle, mulct, nobble(British slang), pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize extort, wrench, wrest, wringclip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soakexploit, milkdeceive, dupe, fool, gull, trickrope (in)betray, bitch, double-crossbamboozle, fast-talk sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners in 1641 |