Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The spoiling of someone's score in the crib. · A deception, a hoax. · A cheat or swindler.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage. · To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone). · To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off. · To evade, elude.
Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk.
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