vi to live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
2. shirk ·vt to procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
3. shirk ·vi to evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
4. shirk ·noun one who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
5. shirk ·vt to avoid; to escape; to neglect;
implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.