Meaning of Cahoot | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

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

“Nay, we feel in so pleasant a humour, at the recovery of the stolen articles, that we are really disposed to extend our forgiveness to the whole "Cahoot," the more particularly, as some of the suspected, have already "suffered in the flesh;"—[…]”

“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.”

“This particular day he set the scene by arranging with his cahoots to clean up the local operators.”

“Intelligent and power loving Indraprabha took the advantage and agreed to become his cahoot in return of political supremacy.”

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