bilker
Skips the bill
A bilker is someone who cheats or defrauds others, typically by avoiding payment or shirking obligations.
The word carries a sense of petty swindling rather than grand theft: The restaurant owner kept a list of bilkers who'd skipped out on their tabs.
From the verb bilk.
evasion
Flee to avoid capture
- skip outLeave abruptly, often irresponsibly
- fleeDepart swiftly from threat
- boltThreaded rod for nuts
- disappearPass from visibility
vanish · dodge · elude · evade · escape · skip town · run out · welsh
abscond
Flee to avoid capture
disappear · vanish · dodge · elude · evade · escape · skip town · run out · welsh · stiff
conman
Fraud who deceives for profit
fraudster · defrauder · trickster · impostor · charlatan · mountebank · flimflammer · shyster · racketeer · sharpie
con
Argument against
ruse · fraud · hoax · dupery · chicanery · flimflam · hustle · bamboozle · hoodwink · deceive