Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Questionable collaboration; secret partnership.
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- noun
Collusion orcollaboration tonefarious ends.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Are you in cahoots with Bloggsy again re: your posts? on January 20, 2010 at 4: 37 pm inspectorgadget
Police Complaints – The Shocking Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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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 2009
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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."
Lure of quick profits snared investors in Carolina land deals Tom Jackman 2010
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Being in cahoots with Bloggsy is something I can only dream about … … ..
Police Complaints – The Shocking Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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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.
Hedwig Kiesler is a Stone-Cold BADASS zhukora1 2009
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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."
Lure of quick profits snared investors in Carolina land deals Tom Jackman 2010
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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" 2010
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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.
Tonight's TV highlights Ali Catterall 2010
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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."
Lure of quick profits snared investors in Carolina land deals Tom Jackman 2010
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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 2010
reesetee commented on the word cahoots
HEY! WeirdNet has a "more" link! :-D
Also, is anyone ever just in one cahoot?
January 16, 2008
uselessness commented on the word cahoots
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
January 16, 2008
reesetee commented on the word cahoots
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.
January 16, 2008
zoom commented on the word cahoots
I'm not greedy. When it comes to cahoots. One is fine.
February 2, 2008
fbharjo commented on the word cahoots
cabin-net?? (see etymology of the word)
February 20, 2012