See cahoots in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Those two are definitely in cahoots.",
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"text": "There was no stage on the road, and no vehicle in the place except these mighty wagons. Accordingly I struck a bargain with a wagoner, who took my baggage. 'You may go with me,' said he, 'but may-be you can't go cahoots with me in my eatin' fixin's, stranger.'",
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"ref": "1888, Bret Harte, “Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy”, in Stories in Light and Shadow; The Argonauts of North Liberty (The Works of Bret Harte; XIII), Argonaut edition, New York, N.Y.: P[eter] F[enelon] Collier & Son, →OCLC, page 65:",
"text": "Like as not, Uncle Billy is still in ‘cahoots’ [i.e., shares] with his old pard, and is just laughin’ at us as he’s sendin’ him accounts of our tomfoolin’.",
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"ref": "1926 August 21, Henry C. Rowland, “Twin Propellers. Chapter XI.”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 199, number 8, Philadelphia, Pa., London: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51, column 2:",
"text": "[…] I suspected him of being in cahoots with the steward, who got the lights doused long enough for the pearls to be stolen.",
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"ref": "1928 March, “Trouble in Guaduragua”, in The North American Review, volume CCXXV, number 841, New York, N.Y.: North American Review Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 371–372:",
"text": "Now it came to pass that the President of the Republic of Guaduragua was suspected of being in cahoots with a Juju society, of consulting astrologers, and of being under the undue influence of a designing woman; whereupon the Guaduraguan Parliament thought it well to investigate the matter, and came together on its own initiative for that purpose. […] [I]t was not in Guaduragua at all that the comedy was enacted, but in one of the Sovereign Commonwealths of the United States of America.",
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"ref": "1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 74:",
"text": "They probably give it back to him; they're all in cahoots.",
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"ref": "2005, Steven D[avid] Levitt, Stephen J[oseph] Dubner, “How is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-estate Agents? In which is Argued that Nothing is More Powerful than Information, Especially when Its Power is Abused”, in Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 58:",
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"ref": "2022 June 6, A[nthony] O[liver] Scott, “Critic’s notebook: Are the movies liberal?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-17:",
"text": "[A] sense of grievance and victimization has come to permeate the modern conservative identity. […] In this account, Hollywood acts in functional cahoots with academia and the news media, and what drives the populism of Republican politicians like Ron DeSantis in Florida and J[ames] D[avid] Vance in Ohio is full-throated opposition to those institutions.",
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"text": "Now it came to pass that the President of the Republic of Guaduragua was suspected of being in cahoots with a Juju society, of consulting astrologers, and of being under the undue influence of a designing woman; whereupon the Guaduraguan Parliament thought it well to investigate the matter, and came together on its own initiative for that purpose. […] [I]t was not in Guaduragua at all that the comedy was enacted, but in one of the Sovereign Commonwealths of the United States of America.",
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"etymology_text": "PIE word\n *ḱóm\nFrom earlier cahoot + -s (suffix forming regular plurals of nouns). Cahoot is probably borrowed:\n* from French cahute (“hut, shack”), from Dutch kajuit (“cabin on a ship”), from Middle Low German kajüte, probably from Middle Dutch kayhute; further etymology uncertain, possibly borrowed from Old French *cahute, chahute (whence Middle French quahute), a blend of cabane (“cabin, hut, shack”) + hute (“hut”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to conceal, hide; to cover; hide, skin”)); or\n* from French cohorte (“group of people supporting the same person or thing, cohort”), from Latin cohors (“cohort; crowd”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; near; with”) + *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”) (and if so, a doublet of cohort).",
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"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ca‧hoots"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"form_of": [
{
"word": "cahoot"
}
],
"glosses": [
"third-person singular simple present indicative of cahoot"
],
"links": [
[
"cahoot",
"cahoot#English"
]
],
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"indicative",
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
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{
"enpr": "kə-ho͞otsʹ",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kəˈhuːts/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kəˈhuts/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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{
"rhymes": "-uːts"
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],
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}
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