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cheating out

cheating out is the present participle and gerund of cheat out.

Meaning of cheat out

Verb

cheat out (third-person singular simple present cheats out, present participle cheating out, simple past and past participle cheated out)

  1. (intransitive) To face or turn toward the audience more than would be natural, for instance in a staged conversation.
    • In stage acting, we are frequently asked to cheat out to the audience by opening up our body positions so that we are something halfway between facing them and our partner.2015, Robert Barton, Acting: Onstage and Off, page 184
    Synonyms:
    open up

Questions about cheating out

What is cheating out the present participle and gerund of?
Cheating out is the present participle and gerund of cheat out.

Words near cheating out in the dictionary

  1. cheatin'
  2. cheating
  3. cheating death
  4. cheating fate
  5. cheating on
  6. cheating out
  7. cheating out of
  8. cheating the pocket
  9. cheatingly
  10. cheatings
  11. cheatless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheating out (page history and authors); cheat out (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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