bilking

Meanings

• Verb

  Swindling or defrauding someone, often through deceit or trickery.

  - "He was bilked out of his savings by a fraudulent investment scheme."
  - "The con artist bilked tourists out of their money with fake lottery tickets."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with bilking
binking , inking , inking , linking

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Variants

List of all variants of bilking that leads to same result
bilk , bilked , bilker , bilkers , bilking , bilks

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Etymology

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Originally meant 'to cheat at shuffleboard' or 'to shave a beam' in the 16th century.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'bilking' is believed to have originated from the Dutch word 'bilken', meaning 'to shave'.

2. Bilking is also used as a term in insurance to describe the act of intentionally causing damage to one's own property in order to file a false claim.

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Related Concepts

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1. Swindle: The act of deceitfully obtaining something, often money, from someone.

2. Fraud: A deliberate deception or misrepresentation intended to secure an unfair or unlawful gain.

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Culture

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Bilking has been a common theme in literature, particularly in detective and crime novels. It is also a recurring motif in folktales and cautionary stories.

How to Memorize "bilking"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine someone tricking someone else out of their belongings or money.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word with deceit or trickery.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Remember the B in bilking stands for 'Bamboozle' or 'Bluff'.

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