cahoots

Also used as

cahoots is also the plural of cahoot.

cahoots is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of cahoot.

Examples of cahoots in a sentence

• Like as not, Uncle Billy is still in ‘cahoots’ [i.e., shares] with his old pard, and is just laughin’ at us as he’s sendin’ him accounts of our tomfoolin’.1888, Bret Harte, “Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy”, in Stories in Light and Shadow; The Argonauts of North Liberty (The Works of Bret Harte...
• […] I suspected him of being in cahoots with the steward, who got the lights doused long enough for the pearls to be stolen.1926 August 21, Henry C. Rowland, “Twin Propellers. Chapter XI.”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 199...
• They probably give it back to him; they're all in cahoots.1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 74:
• The Klan was in cahoots with political, business, and law-enforcement leaders.2005, Steven D[avid] Levitt, Stephen J[oseph] Dubner, “How is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-estate Agents? In which is Argued that...

Synonyms of cahoots

• cahoot
• consort

Forms of cahoots

Origin of cahoots

PIE word *ḱóm From earlier cahoot + -s (suffix forming regular plurals of nouns). Cahoot is probably borrowed: * from French cahute (“hut, shack”), from Dutch kajuit (“cabin on a ship”), from Middle Low German kajüte, probably from Middle Dutch kayhute; further etymology uncertain, possibly borrowed from Old French *cahute, chahute (whence Middle French quahute), a blend of cabane (“cabin, hut, shack”) + hute (“hut”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to conceal, hide; to cover; hide, skin”)); or * from French cohorte (“group of people supporting the same person or thing, cohort”), from Latin cohors (“cohort; crowd”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; near; with”) + *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”) (and if so, a doublet of cohort).

Words formed from cahoots

• go cahoots
• in cahoots

Phrases with cahoots

• goes cahoots
• gone cahoots
• went cahoots
• going cahoots

Words that rhyme with cahoots

• roots
• boots
• Coutts
• beauts
• brutes
• buttes
• computes
• coots
• disputes
• flutes
• fruits
• glutes

Questions about cahoots

What does cahoots mean?

Cahoots means chiefly preceded by in: collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason.

How do you use cahoots in a sentence?

Like as not, Uncle Billy is still in ‘cahoots’ [i.e., shares] with his old pard, and is just laughin’ at us as he’s sendin’ him accounts of our tomfoolin’.

What part of speech is cahoots?

Cahoots is a noun.

How do you pronounce cahoots?

Cahoots is pronounced /kəˈhuːts/ (UK).