Cahoots

Definitions

Chiefly preceded by in: collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason.

plural, plural-normally

Equivalents

8 more languages

العربيةالتواطؤ

Suomijuonittelusalajuoni

हिन्दीमिलीभगत

Italianocombutta

日本語共謀

Portuguêsconluiotrama

Русскийсоучастник

Svenskamaskopi

Examples

“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.”

“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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