ilk

"Slam Dunks and No-Brainers" の一文です。　
The adviser clearly didn't care for Suskind or his ilk.
Suskindは人の名前です。大型の鹿、elk ("The elk, or wapiti, is one of the largest species of deer in the world and one of the largest mammals in North America and eastern Asia." Wikipedia より）を米国で見たことはありますが、"ilk" は知りません。
そこで辞書を引きます。
OneLook Quick Definitions: a kind of person (Example: "I don't like people of his ilk")
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n. family, class, or kind: he and all his ilk.
n. Type or kind: can't trust people of that ilk.
憶えたい単語です。