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Bilos vs Bilks - What's the difference?

bilos | bilks |

As a noun bilos

is plural of bilo.

As a verb bilks is

third-person singular of bilk.

bilos

English

Noun

(head)

    • bilks

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bilk)

    • bilk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
  • (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
  • To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
  • *2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 615:
  • *:They also perpetrate nonviolent crimes like bilking elderly couples out of their life savings and running a business with ruthless disregard for the welfare of the workforce or stakeholders.