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Date "BILKER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bilker (A ). A person who gives a cabman less than his fare, and, when remonstrated with, gives a false name and address. Sometimes a "bilker" gets out and says, "Cabby, I shall be back in a minute," turns the corner and is no more seen. "The time for taking out a summons expires in seven days, and it often takes longer than that to hunt a `bilker' down."- Nineteenth Century (March, 1893, p. 177). Also a cabman who does not pay the owner for the cab. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bilker scott | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BILKER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, fraudulent, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, Jack-in-the-box, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, pettifogging, phoney, quack, racketeer, rascal, rascally, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, snide, swindler, trickster, twister, two-tongued). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غشاش (cat's, spurious), المتهرب (shirk, shirker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | измамник (ambidextrous, bilk, cheat, counterfeit, deceiver, double-dealer, fake, fiddler, fraud, gyp, impostor, intake, juggler, ringer, rook, sharp, sharpy, slicker, swindler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | filou. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schwindler (con man, confidence trickster, dodger, fake, faker, fibber, fiddler, finagler, finaglers, fraud, frauds, goldbricker, impostor, juggler, liar, masquerader, phoney, phony, shark, slicker, swindler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απατεώνασ (beguiler, bilk, blackleg, cheat, crook, fraud, hoodwinker, imposture, jockey, knave, swindler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szélhámos (cheat, chiseler, con man, confidence man, fake, fiddler, fraud, gouge, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, mountebank, phoney, phony, rogue, rooky, shark, sharper, swindler, trickster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilkerbay trapeceira. (various references) жулик (bilk, cheat, con, faker, gyp, phoney, phony, rapscallion, ratbag, rogue, sharper, slicker, swindler). (various references) prevarant (cheat, chouse, confidence trickster, deceiver, fake, faker, wheeler dealer). (various references) bedragare (cheat, crook, deceiver, defrauder, double-dealer, fraud, imposter, impostor, juggler, sharper, swindler). (various references) dolandırıcı (adventurer, carpet bagger, cheat, cheater, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, crook, crooked, deceitful, double-dealer, faker, fakir, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, grifter, gyp, hustler, impostor, knave, lurcher, rogue, sham, shark, sharp, spieler, swindler, Twicer), düzenbaz (crafty, cross, deceitful, deceiver, designing, falsifier, gadgety, impostor, intriguer, intriguing, left handed, pettifogging, racketeer, rogue, roguish, serpentine, shammer, shyster, tartar, trickster, tricky). (various references) шахрай (beat, charlatan, cheat, deceiver, doer, gambler, jockey, knave, phony, picaroon, prick, racketeer, rascal, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, shark, sharp, sharper, swindler). (various references) người trốn nợ người lừa đảo người đi xe quịt người trốn tránh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BILKER": bilkers. (additional references) | |
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"BILKER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: balken, Beilken, Belkif, bellver, Belser, Belver, bilder, Bilek, Bileka, bilger, bilke, Bilkey, bilko, biller, bilter, Birker, Bixler, Bukler, bulker, Ilker, Ilkere, Kilkern. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-k-l-r" | |
-1 letter: biker, birle, liber, liker. | |
-2 letters: bier, bike, bile, bilk, birk, birl, brie, keir, kerb, kibe, kier, lier, like, lire, riel, rile. | |
-3 letters: bel, elk, ilk, ire, irk, kir, lei, lek, lib, lie, reb, rei, rib. | |
-4 letters: be, bi, el, er, li, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-k-l-r" | |
+1 letter: balkier, bilkers, blinker, brickle, bulkier, riblike. | |
+2 letters: barnlike, baulkier, bearlike, birdlike, blinkers, blockier, brickles, herblike, rubylike. | |
+3 letters: berkelium, berrylike, blinkered, boardlike, drinkable, jailbreak, knobblier. | |
+4 letters: backslider, berkeliums, besprinkle, blinkering, blitzkrieg, bootlicker, brickfield, bricklayer, bucklering, buttermilk, cherublike, drinkables, jailbreaks, kimberlite, kohlrabies, linebacker, ribbonlike, rubberlike, shrinkable, silverback. | |
+5 letters: backsliders, besprinkled, besprinkles, blackbirded, blackbirder, blacklister, blackmailer, bladderlike, blitzkriegs, boilermaker, bootlickers, brickfields, bricklayers, bristlelike, buttermilks, cinderblock, goldbricked, kimberlites, lawbreaking, linebackers, lobsterlike, rainbowlike, silverbacks, undrinkable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 49 4C 4B 45 52 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. .-.. -.- . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001001 01001100 01001011 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I L K E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 004C 004B 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364346453952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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