cheats

Noun (1)

cheat (countable and uncountable, plural cheats)

1. (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
   • When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat.1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number)

   Synonyms:

   fraud, trick, imposition, imposture

2. (countable) Someone who cheats.
   • And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; but some went betwixt them, and with much ado and much struggling and cursing they were parted, and it being shown that the dice...1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33

   Synonyms:

   cheater, bandit

3. (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
4. (uncountable) Synonym of bullshit (“a card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies”).

   Synonyms:

   bullshit

5. (countable) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
   • I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]1992 January, Phil Howard, “Cheat Mode”, in Amstrad Action, number 76, page 32

Noun (2)

cheat (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.
   • The raueled cheat therfore is generallie ſo made that out of one buſhell of meale, after two and twentie pounds of bran be ſifted and taken from it (wherevnto they ad the gurgeons that riſe from the manchet) they make thirtie cast, euerie lofe weighing eightéene ounces into the ouen and ſixteene...1587, Raphaell Holinshed, Iohn Hooker, “Of the food and diet of the Engliſh”, in The firſt and ſecond volumes of Chronicles […] , volume I, London: Henry Denham, page 169

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