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cheats out

cheats out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 cheats out

What is cheats out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cheats out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cheat out.

Words near cheats out in the dictionary

  1. cheats
  2. cheats death
  3. cheats fate
  4. cheats never prosper
  5. cheats on
  6. cheats out
  7. cheats out of
  8. cheats the pocket
  9. cheatsheet
  10. cheatsheets
  11. Cheatum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheats 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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