BALK
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Example

Shoppers balked at the sudden fee added at checkout.

Definition

To stop short or refuse to proceed

  • To hesitate or resist strongly, often with balk at

To thwart, hinder, or frustrate plans or progress

Baseball: an illegal deceptive motion by the pitcher

  • Runners advance one base

Billiards or snooker: the area behind the baulk line

  • The starting zone for the cue ball

A beam or crossbeam; squared timber

An unploughed ridge in a field

  • An earth bank at an excavation edge