Cahoots

//kəˈhuːts//

"Cahoots" in a Sentence (14 examples)

The two leading firms are actually in cahoots with each other.

They're all in cahoots.

The two of you are in cahoots against me!

Sami was in cahoots with Layla.

Boris accused Melissa of being in cahoots with John.

He was in cahoots with Mom.

Those two are definitely in cahoots.

There was no stage on the road, and no vehicle in the place except these mighty wagons. Accordingly I struck a bargain with a wagoner, who took my baggage. 'You may go with me,' said he, 'but may-be you can't go cahoots with me in my eatin' fixin's, stranger.'

Like as not, Uncle Billy is still in ‘cahoots’ [i.e., shares] with his old pard, and is just laughin’ at us as he’s sendin’ him accounts of our tomfoolin’.

[…] I suspected him of being in cahoots with the steward, who got the lights doused long enough for the pearls to be stolen.

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Now it came to pass that the President of the Republic of Guaduragua was suspected of being in cahoots with a Juju society, of consulting astrologers, and of being under the undue influence of a designing woman; whereupon the Guaduraguan Parliament thought it well to investigate the matter, and came together on its own initiative for that purpose. […] [I]t was not in Guaduragua at all that the comedy was enacted, but in one of the Sovereign Commonwealths of the United States of America.

They probably give it back to him; they're all in cahoots.

The Klan was in cahoots with political, business, and law-enforcement leaders.

[A] sense of grievance and victimization has come to permeate the modern conservative identity. […] In this account, Hollywood acts in functional cahoots with academia and the news media, and what drives the populism of Republican politicians like Ron DeSantis in Florida and J[ames] D[avid] Vance in Ohio is full-throated opposition to those institutions.

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