cahoot

[kuh-hoot]

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Idioms Informal.

go cahoots, to share equally; become partners: They went cahoots in the establishment of the store.Also go in cahoot with, go in cahoots.

in cahoot/cahoots,

in partnership; in league.
in conspiracy: in cahoots with the enemy.

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Origin of cahoot

1820–30, Americanism; perhaps < French cahute cabin, hut, equivalent to ca(bane) cabin + hutte hut

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Examples from the Web for cahoots

Selling drugs in cahoots with a childhood friend, a disagreement led to manslaughter by gunshot.
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He plays Dominic Badguy, who is in cahoots with Constantine, the evil frog.
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No good can come of allowing politicians, in cahoots with ISPs, to tell the public what a “normal” internet should look like.
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“The court and the taxation bureau are in cahoots,” Pu told The Daily Beast.
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Mars in cahoots with Neptune allows you to realize fantastically creative endeavors.
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You had to make a fight to keep him so they couldn't say you were in cahoots with me.
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But if something is fishy about the mate too, then perhaps he's in cahoots with her.
The Jewels of Aptor|Samuel R. Delany
An' say, I happen to think them two—Hammond an' Thomas—has been in cahoots fer some time—got an idea they is actually partners.
Lightnin'|Frank Bacon
Now Lewis says these men pack to an' fro from Elgeria, an' he has a hunch they're in cahoots with Smith, who runs a place there.
The Mysterious Rider|Zane Grey
And, too, he was in cahoots with Gately, and the last thing he wanted was to lose his patron.
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British Dictionary definitions for cahoots

cahoots

pl n (sometimes singular) informal

US partnership; league (esp in the phrases go in cahoots with, go cahoot)

in cahoots in collusion

Word Origin for cahoots

C19: of uncertain origin

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Word Origin and History for cahoots

1829, American English, of unknown origin; said to be perhaps from French cahute "cabin, hut" (12c.), but U.S. sources credit it to French cohorte (see cohort), a word said to have been in use in the U.S. South and West with a sense of "companions, confederates."