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Provided by the compucert bilk \bilk\, verb, noun:
- to defraud; cheat
- to frustrate
- to escape from; elude
- a trick; fraud; deceit.
- a cheat, swindler
by 1651, from the noun (1633), first used as a cribbage term. Origin obscure, it was believed in 17th century to be "a word signifying nothing," perhaps of Arab origin; but it is rather perhaps a thinned form of balk. Meaning "to defraud" is first recorded 1672.
- To convince someone to agree to, accept, or do something, usually by using the promise of sex (explicit or implicit) or by withholding sex until you get your way.
Girl 2: You need to sexsuade that man!
History
- Daniel Webster: orator delivered his Seventh of March speech defending the Compromise of 1850 (1850)
- telephone: transmitter/receiver of sound was patented by Alexander Graham Bell (1876); exactly 50 years later, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London (1926)
- fair use: the US Supreme Court ruled in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music that parodies are not copyright infringements (1994)
Birthdays
- Luther Burbank 1849
- Pieter Mondrian 1872
- Maurice Ravel 1875
- Anna Magnani 1908
- Lee Young 1917 - Musician (Nat King Cole Trio)
- Mahlon Clark 1923 - Musician (Lawrence Welk's band)
- James Broderick 1927
- Lord Snowdon 1930 - Photographer
- Frank Morelli 1932
- Willard Scott 1934 - Television personality ("Today")
- Janet Guthrie 1938 - Auto racer
- Homero Blancas 1938
- Daniel J. Travanti 1940 - Actor ("Hill Street Blues")
- Michael York 1942
- Michael Eisner 1942 - Walt Disney CEO
- Tammy Faye Bakker 1942
- Billy MacMillan 1943
- Chris White 1943 - Musician (The Zombies)
- John Heard 1946
- Peter Wolf 1946 - Musician (J. Geils Band)
- Matthew Fisher 1946 - Musician (Procol Harum)
- Donna Loren 1947
Peggy March 1948- Franco Harris 1950 - Football player
- Lynn Swann 1952 - Football player
- Ernie Isley 1952 - Musician (The Isley Brothers)
- Jules Shear 1953
- Bryan Cranston 1956
- Ivan Lendl 1960 - Tennis player
- Bill Brochtrup 1963
- Wanda Sykes 1964 - Comedian, actress
- Taylor Dayne 1965 - Singer
- Paul Davis 1966 - Musician (Happy Mondays)
- Randy Guss 1967 - Musician (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
- Jeff Kent 1968 - Baseball player
- Rachel Weisz 1971 - Actress
- Peter Sarsgaard 1971 - Actor
- Hugo Ferreira 1974 - Musician (Tantric)
- Jenna Fischer 1974 - Actress ("The Office")
- Laura Prepon 1980 - Actress ("That 70s Show")
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