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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cahoot

Cahoot \Ca*hoot"\, n. [Perhaps fr. f. cohorte a company or band.] Partnership; league; as, to go in cahoot (or in cahoots) with a person. Usually used in the plural, and in modern usage often used to imply that the joint effort is unethical, shady, questionable, or illegal; as, a shill in cahoots with a pickpocket, to serve as a distraction. [Slang, southwestern U. S.]
--Bartlett. [1913 Webster +PJC] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cahoot

see cahoots.

Wiktionary
cahoot

vb. To act in partnership.

Wikipedia
Cahoot

cahoot is the internet division of Santander UK plc, the British subsidiary of the Santander Group. Cahoot was launched in June 2000, as the internet-based banking brand of Abbey National plc, and by December 2008, it had 750,000 customers. Cahoot is based in Coventry, England.

Usage examples of "cahoot".

For the fact that Gummer was in cahoots with Lucky, was proof sufficient that the sneak was staging crime.

Albert LaFollette, the bellboy who went nuts at the Mansard House, was in cahoots with anybody.

Policy Institute, Washington, Hansen interprets the memos to mean that some US and Canadian authorities, supposedly acting as objective, unaffiliated scientists, were in fact working in cahoots with Monsanto as advocates for the producer.

Alaskan and Athabascan friends were in cahoots, nicely co-ordinating their efforts to keep us wrong-footed and ensuring that we were in A while we should have been in B, and vice versa.

Supposing Burgo Smyth has been in cahoots with Franklyn Faber, for some reason unknown, but then betrays him and allows him to take all the blame?

Baldwin said that Folsom seemed to have been juggling his accounts, in cahoots with a supplier of cardboard.

Donnie Bichon was in cahoots with Marcotte, who was in cahoots with the mob.

Searching the sky, he saw a squadron of Asian strat-planes zooming eastward with the calm confidence of things in cahoots with God.

Asian strat-planes zooming eastward with the calm confidence of things in cahoots with God.

I had never known that Pablito was in cahoots with such a scary, awesome man.

Seemed peculiar that Daddy Richard chose the Frenchman in spite of the way Chevelier ranted on against the Church, and even more peculiar that a man in cahoots with the Devil would agree to it.

You have to tell me everything you know about Asmodeus, and how he came to be in cahoots with Eduardo and Guarda.

But the local law-force ain't strong enough to deal with ‘em, and anyway, most of the folks in town is in cahoots with ‘em, and warns ‘em if officers from outside come after ‘em.

What would become of her if Bragi and Haroun really were in cahoots against him?

He knew nothing about this world except that it held intelligent life and was part of or in cahoots with the Combine.