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Cahoot

//kəˈhuːt// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A company or partnership. uncommon
  2. 2
    collusion wordnet
  3. 3
    Chiefly preceded by in: a group of people working together, chiefly for a nefarious reason; hence, a collaboration or collusion. uncommon

    "Gineral Government and the ministration are going in cahoot to undermine and overrule the undertakings of the free people of Georgia."

  4. 4
    An accomplice, a partner. uncommon

    "Fisk and his “cahoots” have got at cross purposes, and he has been put out of bed. Whether Fisk is rightly or wrongly out of bed is not for Congress to determine."

Verb
  1. 1
    To act in partnership. intransitive, uncommon

    "[…] argument that we shouldn't be doing it, and if we do we'll fail, and if we succeed, our leaders were lying, tricking and cahooting with Halliburton?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

For the noun, see cahoots. The verb is derived from the noun.

Etymology 2

For the noun, see cahoots. The verb is derived from the noun.

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