Synonyms for cahoots
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kuh-hoot |
| Phonetic Transcription : kəˈhut |
Définition of cahoots
Origin :- 1829, American English, of unknown origin; said to be perhaps from French cahute "cabin, hut" (12c.), but U.S. sources credit it to French cohorte (see cohort), a word said to have been in use in the U.S. South and West with a sense of "companions, confederates."
- noun conspiracy
- You had to make a fight to keep him so they couldn't say you were in cahoots with me.
- Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
- On the other was the simple and perplexing inscription, "Cahoots."
- Extract from : « The heart of happy hollow » by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The reason he said it was because most of the things we have we have sort of in cahoots, the three of us.
- Extract from : « Swatty » by Ellis Parker Butler
- What puzzles me is as to who was in cahoots with him, mused Joe.
- Extract from : « Baseball Joe in the World Series » by Lester Chadwick
- But if something is fishy about the mate too, then perhaps he's in cahoots with her.
- Extract from : « The Jewels of Aptor » by Samuel R. Delany
- Dont you know her uncle and Carrington are in cahoots in this deal?
- Extract from : « The Ranchman » by Charles Alden Seltzer
- Are you insinuating that I was in cahoots with this fellow here?
- Extract from : « Delayed Action » by Charles Vincent De Vet
- Now was his time to strike, if he could just get Stuart to go in cahoots with him.
- Extract from : « A Texas Cow Boy » by Chas. A. Siringo
- He can guess all he wants about Miss Sally and the Colonel being in cahoots with this bribe business.
- Extract from : « Kilo » by Ellis Parker Butler
- But Miss Mercy was adamant, and intimated that Wallie was in sympathy with his hireling if not in actual "cahoots" with him.
- Extract from : « The Dude Wrangler » by Caroline Lockhart
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