Bb: Bilking

Bilking:
1.
a. To defraud, cheat, or swindle: made millions bilking wealthy clients on art sales.
b. To evade payment of: bilk one's debts.
2. To thwart or frustrate: "Fate . . . may be to a certain extent bilked" Thomas Carlyle.
3. To elude.
n.
1. One who cheats.
2. Obsolete A hoax or swindle.
[Perhaps alteration of balk.]