bilkern.
/ˈbɪlkə/, U.S. /ˈbɪlkər/ slang.
One who practises cheating; esp. one who evades payment of a cabman's fare.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives
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1717 Daily Courant 27 Dec. A Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing, call'd, The Cheats, or, The Tavern Bilkers.
1887 Tit-Bits 25 June 172 Cab Bilkers.
1892 Daily News 6 May 6/5 Fares who tried to evade payment, known as ‘bilkers’.
1898 Daily News 8 Jan. 3/5 The London Cab Act, 59 and 60 Victoria, chapter 27, commonly known as the Bilkers' Act.
1909 H. G. Wells Ann Veronica xvi. 336 Ann Veronica, you're a bilker!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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