Englishcahoot
plural cahoots
Definition
- informal
- : partnership, league —usually used in plural —usually used in phrases like in cahoots to describe people or groups working together or making plans together in secret //… shadowy characters in cahoots who work their secret ends until they are flushed out by intrepid reporting. — Garrison Keillor //… fraud can be nearly impossible to detect whenever two law firm insiders are in cahoots … — Rorie Sherman //… a formidable American beauty who is in cahoots with the C.I.A. — Patrick Anderson //Friends of the terminally ill jeweler are ready to see him go to Ireland. They got into cahoots, as he puts it, to fund a 'Send Dick to Ireland' trip with a weekend yard sale … — Andrea Brown //When his wife leaves for a visit with her mother, a young man is thrust into cahoots with gangsters … — VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
First Known Use
1827, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
perhaps from French cahute cabin, hutcahoot
plural cahoots
Definition
- informal
- : partnership, league —usually used in plural —usually used in phrases like in cahoots to describe people or groups working together or making plans together in secret //… shadowy characters in cahoots who work their secret ends until they are flushed out by intrepid reporting. — Garrison Keillor //… fraud can be nearly impossible to detect whenever two law firm insiders are in cahoots … — Rorie Sherman //… a formidable American beauty who is in cahoots with the C.I.A. — Patrick Anderson //Friends of the terminally ill jeweler are ready to see him go to Ireland. They got into cahoots, as he puts it, to fund a 'Send Dick to Ireland' trip with a weekend yard sale … — Andrea Brown //When his wife leaves for a visit with her mother, a young man is thrust into cahoots with gangsters … — VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
First Known Use
1827, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
perhaps from French cahute cabin, hutcahoot
plural cahoots
Definition
- informal
- : partnership, league —usually used in plural —usually used in phrases like in cahoots to describe people or groups working together or making plans together in secret //… shadowy characters in cahoots who work their secret ends until they are flushed out by intrepid reporting. — Garrison Keillor //… fraud can be nearly impossible to detect whenever two law firm insiders are in cahoots … — Rorie Sherman //… a formidable American beauty who is in cahoots with the C.I.A. — Patrick Anderson //Friends of the terminally ill jeweler are ready to see him go to Ireland. They got into cahoots, as he puts it, to fund a 'Send Dick to Ireland' trip with a weekend yard sale … — Andrea Brown //When his wife leaves for a visit with her mother, a young man is thrust into cahoots with gangsters … — VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
First Known Use
1827, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
perhaps from French cahute cabin, hutcahoot
plural cahoots
Definition
- informal
- : partnership, league —usually used in plural —usually used in phrases like in cahoots to describe people or groups working together or making plans together in secret //… shadowy characters in cahoots who work their secret ends until they are flushed out by intrepid reporting. — Garrison Keillor //… fraud can be nearly impossible to detect whenever two law firm insiders are in cahoots … — Rorie Sherman //… a formidable American beauty who is in cahoots with the C.I.A. — Patrick Anderson //Friends of the terminally ill jeweler are ready to see him go to Ireland. They got into cahoots, as he puts it, to fund a 'Send Dick to Ireland' trip with a weekend yard sale … — Andrea Brown //When his wife leaves for a visit with her mother, a young man is thrust into cahoots with gangsters … — VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
First Known Use
1827, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
perhaps from French cahute cabin, hutcahoot
plural cahoots
Definition
- informal
- : partnership, league —usually used in plural —usually used in phrases like in cahoots to describe people or groups working together or making plans together in secret //… shadowy characters in cahoots who work their secret ends until they are flushed out by intrepid reporting. — Garrison Keillor //… fraud can be nearly impossible to detect whenever two law firm insiders are in cahoots … — Rorie Sherman //… a formidable American beauty who is in cahoots with the C.I.A. — Patrick Anderson //Friends of the terminally ill jeweler are ready to see him go to Ireland. They got into cahoots, as he puts it, to fund a 'Send Dick to Ireland' trip with a weekend yard sale … — Andrea Brown //When his wife leaves for a visit with her mother, a young man is thrust into cahoots with gangsters … — VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
First Known Use
1827, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
perhaps from French cahute cabin, hutcahoot
plural cahoots
Definition
- informal
- : partnership, league —usually used in plural —usually used in phrases like in cahoots to describe people or groups working together or making plans together in secret //… shadowy characters in cahoots who work their secret ends until they are flushed out by intrepid reporting. — Garrison Keillor //… fraud can be nearly impossible to detect whenever two law firm insiders are in cahoots … — Rorie Sherman //… a formidable American beauty who is in cahoots with the C.I.A. — Patrick Anderson //Friends of the terminally ill jeweler are ready to see him go to Ireland. They got into cahoots, as he puts it, to fund a 'Send Dick to Ireland' trip with a weekend yard sale … — Andrea Brown //When his wife leaves for a visit with her mother, a young man is thrust into cahoots with gangsters … — VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
First Known Use
1827, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
perhaps from French cahute cabin, hut