Today, we're going to look at some important vocabulary and clear up the difference between them. So, we're looking at the verbs jip and bilk.

They both mean to cheat somebody, to cheat somebody out of something, but they're used a little differently. First, let's look at jip.

So, if somebody cheated me, I can say they jipped me and I use out of, out of.

They jipped me out of money.

Jip in the past, jipped.

But when I link it with a consonant after jipped, it's a stop T and you don't really hear it.

Jip me.

The tongue goes up, but you don't really hear it.

They jipped me out of money.

That means they cheated me out of money. Let's hear some examples.

We've been jipped all our lives, Smiler.

Because I figured that no matter what I screwed up in my life, no matter what I felt jipped out of, I had the most important thing right.

We've been jipped. Here's the deal, Mom.

We thought it over and we decided we were being totally jipped.

So, I can die with a smile on my face without feeling like the good Lord jipped me.

I'm telling you the devil jipped me for a hamburger! Example.

She put her money in the machine, but she didn't get anything.

She was jipped.

She was jipped out of her money. You can also use jip as a noun.

It's not a good deal.

She lost her money.

It's a bad deal.

You can say, it's a jip.

Or, what a jip.

She put her money in the machine and she didn't get anything.

What a jip. Let's hear some examples.

I got suckered.

I thought they were going to deputize me or something.

What a jip.

What a jip.

What a jip.

That sucks.

Why?

What a jip. Let's practice.

She put her money in the machine, but she didn't get anything.

Was she jipped out of her money?

That's right.

She was jipped out of her money.

In this situation, can you say, what a jip?

That's right.

What a jip. Now let's compare it to this verb, bilk.

Bilk means the same thing.

It means when you cheat someone out of money.

But jip is normally used for smaller amounts of money and bilk is usually used for larger amounts of money.

And when you use bilk, you have an option.

You can say, he was bilked of a lot of money or he was bilked out of a lot of money.

You have an option with your prepositions. Let's hear some examples with bilk.

So they could bilk the bank of $189,000 of commission.

He was convicted in 1998 for running a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors.

We have been bilked with damaged goods.

You're bilked out of what is rightfully yours by Ms. Terry Hoskins, who is today one of the wealthiest women in the state of California.

I always told her your firm was bilking her for millions. Example.

He was one of the investors that lost money.

He was cheated out of a lot of money.

They bilked the investors out of a lot of money, out of millions of dollars.

So the investors were bilked out of millions of dollars. Let's practice.

Did they bilk the investors out of millions of dollars?

That's right.

They bilked the investors out of millions of dollars.

They cheated them. Now let's practice with passive voice.

Were the investors bilked out of millions of dollars?

That's right.

The investors were bilked out of millions of dollars.

They were cheated.

They were bilked. So remember, jip is a verb and jip is a noun.

You can say I was jipped or what a jip.

Bilk is only a verb.

Jip is usually used for smaller amounts and bilk is usually used for larger amounts.

But not always.

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