Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Company or partnership: as, to go in cahoot with a person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang, southwestern U. S. Partnership; league. Usually used in the plural, and in modern usage often used to imply that the joint effort is unethical, shady, questionable, or illegal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To act in
partnership .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun collusion
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Examples
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Page 17 fer it looked like Martin an 'the Colonel was kinder in cahoot, an' my man diskivered that the lan 'had been sold long before it was mortgaged to me for taxes.
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"If," muttered he, "I could only get the township and range, I'd make a cahoot business with old man Doublejoy, get the money from him, and enter that mill-shoal with the twenty foot fall, before ten o'clock to-morrow."
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Who wants a parcel of low-flung, 'outside barbarians,' to go in cahoot with us, and share alike a piece of land that always was and always will be ours?
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 Various 1840
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You might remember her best for her impassioned plea on "Respect Yourself" -- "If you don't respect yourself ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot, NAH-NAH-NAH BROTHER UH!"
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They don't give a cahoot about their people, power is their nemesis and they will continue until they achieve what they so desire.
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Which? says that borrowing the same amount for the same time would cost more with cahoot than HSBC.
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On maturity, a cahoot savings account is opened and funds automatically transferred.
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Savers bringing new money to the Santander Group can get 4. 01pc from cahoot on its Two-Year Fixed-Rate Bond.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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But more important than this story is whether Palin and the fired staffer were in cahoot.
chained_bear commented on the word cahoot
'Used in the South and West to denote a company, or partnership’ (Bartlett). Freq. in pl., esp. in phr. "in cahoot(s) (with)": in league or partnership (with).
Hence cahoot (verb): to act in partnership.
February 14, 2007
Telofy commented on the word cahoot
“You two backing up each other’s alibis means bupkis. You're canoodling and cahooting—and you’re cahooting to kill.”
—Emerson in Pushing Daisies episode Robbing Hood
December 28, 2009