Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Company or partnership: as, to go in cahoot with a person.
Wiktionary
- v. To act in partnership.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. collusion.
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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
“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!”
“On maturity, a cahoot savings account is opened and funds automatically transferred.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
“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
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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.”
“Which? says that borrowing the same amount for the same time would cost more with cahoot than HSBC.”
“But more important than this story is whether Palin and the fired staffer were in cahoot.”
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Telofy “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 Dec 28, 2009
chained_bear '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. Feb 14, 2007