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- noun Plural form of
bilker .
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Examples
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Hmmm. my curiosity led me to divulge the scheme played by the "bilkers" (people who love to obtain money fraudulently).
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A few taxi bilkers, and other than that lots of HAPPY pissed people.
It’s New Years Eve and I promise to do my best. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Nickles settles with alleged church-bilkers (Post)
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My personal favorite is that of the lawyer Marc Dreier who impersonated executives inside of their own offices in order to sell promissory notes (one executive even watched the impersonation, albeit unknowingly) and lived with the pomp and excess expected of such bilkers.
Harry Moroz: The Fake Out: Imitating Regulation in the Era of Madoff 2009
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As my father is a Christian preacher I feel I have a right to protest against his being placed on a clerical parity with bilkers of hack bills and crapulous associates of two-for-a-penny prostitutes.
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The "rules" Obama says non-bilkers have little to fear have yet to be written.
azcentral.com | news 2010
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As I noted at the time, the wording on their Defund ACORN Act was written so broadly that they very likely managed to accidentally defund a great number of corporate contractors, especially military contractors which have been among the most egregious law breakers and taxpayer bilkers in recent history.
Blog entry 2009
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And they keep off bums and lobbygows and scare the bilkers into coughing up. "
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And they keep off bums and lobbygows and scare the bilkers into coughing up. "
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889
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