See cheater on Wiktionary
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"video game"
],
[
"cheater",
"cheater#English"
],
[
"cheat",
"cheat#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(video games) cheater (one who uses cheats in a video game)"
],
"tags": [
"by-personal-gender",
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"video-games"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃi.teʁ/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈʃi.teh]",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃi.teʁ/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈʃi.teh]",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃi.teɾ/",
"tags": [
"São-Paulo"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃi.teʁ/",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈʃi.teχ]",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃi.teɻ/",
"tags": [
"Southern-Brazil"
]
}
],
"word": "cheater"
}
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