putting horns on

Verb

put horns on (third-person singular simple present puts horns on, present participle putting horns on, simple past and past participle put horns on)

1. (transitive) To cuckold, to be unfaithful to or make someone’s partner so.
   • City Comedies depicted the pursuit of wealth, status, and women in Jacobean London. In a typical plot, a ne'er-do-well young gentleman dupes his older relatives out of money, while lower-class rascals play cruder tricks on respectable citizens. For example, in Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My...1983, Wendy Griswold, “The Devil's Techniques: Cultural Legitimation and Social Change”, in American Sociological Review, volume 48, number 5, page 672 of 668–680