Cahoot

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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