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cheaters

cheaters is the plural of cheater.

Meaning of cheater

Noun (1)

cheater (plural cheaters)

  1. Someone who cheats; something that cheats.
    • The Old Viper's an old cheater, an old hornswoggler.1990, Terry Griggs, Quickening, page 131
    Synonyms:
    cheat
    1. Synonym of adulterer.
  2. An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws, bolts, etc. that are difficult to remove with a ratchet or wrench alone.
  3. Any of various auxiliary lenses added to the visor of a welding hood to improve visibility, such as by providing refractive correction for presbyopia or providing magnification (e.g., 2×, 5×, 10×).

Noun (2)

cheater (plural cheaters)

  1. (obsolete) An escheater.

Noun

cheaters pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Spectacles that magnify: reading glasses; often, the inexpensive nonprescription kind.
    • a prissy-looking man in rimless cheaters with a smear on his chin that might have been a goatee1953, Raymond Chandler, chapter 23, in The Long Goodbye, New York: Ballantine, published 1971
    Synonyms:
    cheater glasses

Synonyms of cheaters

Phrases with cheaters

Questions about cheaters

What does cheaters mean?
Cheaters means spectacles that magnify: reading glasses; often, the inexpensive nonprescription kind.
What is cheaters the plural of?
Cheaters is the plural of cheater.
What part of speech is cheaters?
Cheaters is a noun.

Words near cheaters in the dictionary

  1. cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater
  2. cheater, cheater, pumpkin eaters
  3. cheatercock
  4. cheatercocks
  5. cheateries
  6. cheaters
  7. cheaters never prosper
  8. cheatery
  9. cheatest
  10. cheateth
  11. cheatgrass

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