Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal Questionable collaboration; secret partnership: an accountant in cahoots with organized crime.
Wiktionary
- n. Collusion or collaboration to nefarious ends.
Etymologies
- This word was first used in popular English literature sometime before 1829. It comes perhaps from French cahute ("cabin"), from Old French, possibly blend of cabane ("cabin"), and hutte ("hut"). Also thought to be from French cohorte. (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps from French cahute, cabin, from Old French, possibly blend of cabane; see cabin, and hutte; see hut. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Nikita9pm, LivingNikita's fight against the shady government division so secret it's known only as Division goes up a notch when they get in cahoots with a Russian war criminal.”
“As if learning he's a werewolf wasn't threatening enough, the last episode of The Vampire Diaries 'revealed he's in cahoots with Katherine — everyone's vampire enemy.”
Vampire Diaries' Taylor Kinney on the Moon Stone: "It's More Powerful Than You'd Think"
“U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee threw out the banks as defendants last year, saying that allegations "that the banks and [R.A. North] were in cahoots with TRM" were "simply implausible.”
The Washington Post: Lure of quick profits snared investors in Carolina land deals
“She also picked up quite a bit of the political undercurrents of the time, and being from a Jewish family herself, found it absolutely intolerable that her husband was in cahoots with Hitler and other like-minded fascists.”
“I'm convinced that the Mob, in cahoots with Cuban exiles and renegade CIA elements, whacked Jack Kennedy.”
A Conversation with James Ellroy author of The Cold Six Thousand
“Being in cahoots with Bloggsy is something I can only dream about … … ..”
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“Are you in cahoots with Bloggsy again re: your posts? on January 20, 2010 at 4: 37 pm inspectorgadget”
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“UBS has admitted that it worked in cahoots — in cahoots! — with its American customers to defraud the U.S. government, going so far as to encourage them to hide valuables in Swiss safe deposit boxes and use Swiss credit cards to evade the IRS.”
UBS Will Release Names Of Americans Hiding Money From IRS - The Consumerist
“As far as de-regulation is concerned, I would argue that the recent financial crisis was caused by crony capitalism (ie big business and government in cahoots) and not from a lack of regulation.”
“Hmmmm, this post reminds me of the finding that 2/3 of Fox Viewers thought that Saddam was in cahoots with Al Qaeda and that 1/3 thought WMDs had been found, so much higher than NPR viewers …”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cahoots’.
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Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
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Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
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The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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gargoyle, ennui, paradigm, aardvark, verisimilitude, ghoti, tenacity, nescience, guillemet, squonk, maven, moxie and 210 more...
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for cahoots.
fbharjo cabin-net?? (see etymology of the word) Feb 19, 2012
zoom I'm not greedy. When it comes to cahoots. One is fine. Feb 1, 2008
reesetee Sounds like a ship of antiquity. "The Earth-shaker, Poseidon, wrecked my cahoot and cast her on the rocks at the land's end, drifting her on a headland; the wind blew from the sea; and I with these men here escaped impending ruin."
Aye aye. Jan 16, 2008
uselessness I just noticed that myself. Nice job, John! As for your question, I think I'm going to have to start saying "in a cahoot" from now on... :-P Jan 16, 2008
reesetee HEY! WeirdNet has a "more" link! :-D
Also, is anyone ever just in one cahoot? Jan 16, 2008