cahoot
Collocations
4ADJ.
whole
VERB + CAHOOT
going
PREP.
in
ADV.
particularly
Definitions
noun
A company or partnership.
Chiefly preceded by in: a group of people working together, chiefly for a nefarious reason; hence, a collaboration or collusion.
Gineral Government and the ministration are going in cahoot to undermine and overrule the undertakings of the free people of Georgia.
Nay, we feel in so pleasant a humour, at the recovery of the stolen articles, that we are really disposed to extend our forgiveness to the whole "Cahoot," the more particularly, as some of the suspected, have already "suffered in the flesh;"—[…]
An accomplice, a partner.
Fisk and his “cahoots” have got at cross purposes, and he has been put out of bed. Whether Fisk is rightly or wrongly out of bed is not for Congress to determine.
This particular day he set the scene by arranging with his cahoots to clean up the local operators.
verb
To act in partnership.
[…] argument that we shouldn't be doing it, and if we do we'll fail, and if we succeed, our leaders were lying, tricking and cahooting with Halliburton?
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4Gineral Government and the ministration are going in cahoot to undermine and overrule the undertakings of the free people of Georgia.
WiktionaryNay, we feel in so pleasant a humour, at the recovery of the stolen articles, that we are really disposed to extend our forgiveness to the whole "Cahoot," the more particularly, as some of the suspect
WiktionaryFisk and his “cahoots” have got at cross purposes, and he has been put out of bed. Whether Fisk is rightly or wrongly out of bed is not for Congress to determine.
Wiktionary[…] argument that we shouldn't be doing it, and if we do we'll fail, and if we succeed, our leaders were lying, tricking and cahooting with Halliburton?
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