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cahoot

Syllables: ca·hoot/kəˈhuːt/US/kəˈhut/

cahoot noun: a company or partnership.

Noun

cahoot (plural cahoots)

  1. (uncommon) A company or partnership.
  2. (uncommon) Chiefly preceded by in: a group of people working together, chiefly for a nefarious reason; hence, a collaboration or collusion.
    • Gineral Government and the ministration are going in cahoot to undermine and overrule the undertakings of the free people of Georgia.1827 September 15, "The Wanderer", “Barney Blinn”, in Norwalk Reporter and Huron Advertiser, Norwalk, OH, page 4
    • Nay, we feel in so pleasant a humour, at the recovery of the stolen articles, that we are really disposed to extend our forgiveness to the whole "Cahoot," the more particularly, as some of the suspected, have already "suffered in the flesh;"—[…]1831 November 9, Natchez Gazette, Natchez, MS, page 3
    Synonyms:
    cahoots
  3. (uncommon) An accomplice, a partner.
    • Fisk and his “cahoots” have got at cross purposes, and he has been put out of bed. Whether Fisk is rightly or wrongly out of bed is not for Congress to determine.1869, United States Congress, Congressional Globe, page 538, column 3
    • This particular day he set the scene by arranging with his cahoots to clean up the local operators.1993, Mick Masson, Surviving the Dole Years: The 1930s, a Personal Story, →ISBN, page 108

Verb

cahoot (third-person singular simple present cahoots, present participle cahooting, simple past and past participle cahooted)

  1. (intransitive, uncommon) To act in partnership.
    • […] argument that we shouldn't be doing it, and if we do we'll fail, and if we succeed, our leaders were lying, tricking and cahooting with Halliburton?2003 June 6, “Thinking Right: Iraq, Clintons”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution

cahoot meaning in Urdu

cahoot in Urdu

ساجھا

Synonyms of cahoot

Forms of cahoot

Noun
pluralcahoots
Verb
third-person singular presentcahoots
present participlecahooting
past participlecahooted
pastcahooted

Origin of cahoot

For the noun, see cahoots. The verb is derived from the noun.

Words formed from cahoot

Words that rhyme with cahoot

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Questions about cahoot

What does cahoot mean?
Cahoot means a company or partnership.
What is cahoot in Urdu?
Cahoot in Urdu is ساجھا. See Cahoot meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is cahoot?
Cahoot can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce cahoot?
Cahoot is pronounced /kəˈhuːt/ (UK).
What is the plural of cahoot?
The plural of cahoot is cahoots.

Words near cahoot in the dictionary

  1. Cahokia
  2. Cahokia Heights
  3. Cahokian
  4. Cahoon
  5. Cahoons
  6. cahoot
  7. cahootchie
  8. cahooted
  9. cahooting
  10. cahoots
  11. Cahors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cahoot (page history and authors); cahoot (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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