Crossword clues for cheat
cheat
- Rule breaker
- Play unfairly
- Ignore the rules
- Eat cake on your diet
- Don't play fair
- Don't play by the rules
- Cut corners, perhaps
- Win by unethical means
- Use that ace up your sleeve
- Use steroids, say
- Use marked cards, e.g
- Unwanted casino guest
- Take, in a way
- Skirt the rules
- Play dishonestly
- Palm an ace, say
- Look the wrong way, maybe
- Look at the answers beforehand
- Get an A by stealth
- Eat cake on your diet, e.g
- Casino target
- Use cribnotes, e.g
- Use a marked deck, say
- Use a crib, perhaps
- Use a crib
- Use a code on a video game
- Steal someone's heart, say?
- Stack the deck, e.g
- Refuse to play by the rules
- Poker game concern
- Pocket diamonds, say?
- Peek during hide-and-seek, say
- Peek at someone else's test answers, say
- Peek at someone else's paper, e.g
- Not play by the rules
- Look at someone else's test paper, for example
- Look around for some answers?
- Hide answers on your hand, say
- Glance sideways during a test, maybe
- Get infinite lives, say
- Get an A dishonestly
- Fleece, perhaps
- Deal from the bottom of the deck, e.g
- Copy, maybe
- Copy from your classmate's paper, say
- Copier, maybe
- Cook books, say
- Cardsharp, e.g
- Break a vow, say
- Bend the rules to win
- "You can't ___ an honest man"
- Defraud
- Con man
- Flimflammer
- Hornswoggle
- Chiseler
- Take 5, clue 5
- Fudge
- Play badly?
- Use crib notes, say
- Deal from the bottom, e.g
- Hose
- Not play fair
- Swindler — crib
- I.R.S. target
- Fool
- Bamboozle
- Deviate from Hoyle
- Have an affair
- Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land
- A deception for profit to yourself
- The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- Seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- Highbinder
- Dupe
- Sharper
- Bilk
- Thimblerig
- Gull
- Get help on an exam
- Deceive
- Be dishonest
- Shortchange
- Maybe sharper children worry
- Chief put away person who has had one
- Welsh rabbit with bit of Edam in it
- Screw as a boy, perhaps eaten by lion?
- Fleece is beginning to conserve warmth
- Break the rules
- Do the acrosses
- Dishonest competitor caught ahead of race
- Two-timer caught by US police
- Talk about energy fraud
- Rip off
- Peek on a test, say
- Untrustworthy one
- Flout the rules
- Use a crib sheet
- Peek at the answers
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chess \Chess\, n. (Bot.) A species of brome grass ( Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus. [U. S.]
Note: Other species of brome grass are called upright chess, soft chess, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "to escheat," a shortening of Old French escheat, legal term for revision of property to the state when the owner dies without heirs, literally "that which falls to one," past participle of escheoir "happen, befall, occur, take place; fall due; lapse (legally)," from Late Latin *excadere "fall away, fall out," from Latin ex- "out" (see ex-) + cadere "to fall" (see case (n.1)). Also compare escheat. The royal officers evidently had a low reputation. Meaning evolved through "confiscate" (mid-15c.) to "deprive unfairly" (1580s). To cheat on (someone) "be sexually unfaithful" first recorded 1934. Related: Cheated; cheating.
late 14c., "forfeited property," from cheat (v.). Meaning "a deceptive act" is from 1640s; earlier, in thieves' jargon, it meant "a stolen thing" (late 16c.), and earlier still "dice" (1530s). Meaning "a swindler" is from 1660s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone who cheats (informal: cheater). 2 An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. 3 The weed cheatgrass. 4 A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies. 5 A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation. 2 (context intransitive English) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner. 3 (context transitive English) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely. 4 (context transitive English) To deceive; to fool; to trick. 5 To beguile.
WordNet
v. deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" [syn: rip off, chisel]
defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit [syn: chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey]
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?" [syn: chisel]
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" [syn: cheat on, cuckold, betray, wander]
n. weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous [syn: darnel, tare, bearded darnel, Lolium temulentum]
weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat [syn: chess, Bromus secalinus]
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true [syn: deceiver, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker]
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud" [syn: swindle, rig]
a deception for profit to yourself [syn: cheating]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
A cheat is someone who engages in cheating.
Cheat may also refer to:
Cheat (also known as Bullshit and I Doubt It) is a card game where the players aim to get rid of all of their cards. It is a game of deception, with cards being played face-down and players being permitted to lie about the cards they have played. A challenge is usually made by players calling out the name of the game, and the loser of a challenge has to pick up every card in the middle.
Normally played with at least three players, it is often classed as a party game. As with many card games, cheat has an oral tradition and so people are taught the game under different names. The game is called "I Doubt It" by Hoyle and is sometimes known as "Bullshit" or "Bologna" in the USA.
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Usage examples of "cheat".
He had the advantage of owning an excellent network of reporters of transgressions, for he enlisted Lucius Decumius and his crossroads brethren as informers, and cracked down very hard on merchants who weighed light or measured short, on builders who infringed boundaries or used poor materials, on landlords who had cheated the water companies by inserting bigger-bore adjutage pipes from the mains into their properties than the law prescribed.
Laura felt cheated, for here came Amir Bedawi, at last, and she had no sun to provide her eyes the feast they had waited for all day.
After supper she held a bank, and I was greatly astonished when I saw her cheating with great dexterity.
Make my son, the Baas Allan, count them, for then he will not be able to grumble at you if things turn out badly whether you go or whether you stay behind, and say that you counted wrong or cheated.
They had sent letters of excuse claiming poor crops, banditry, plague, evil weather, and cheating tax gatherers.
I cheated her now and then, but to her own advantage, for a young woman is always more vigorous than a man, and we did not stop till the day began to break.
Carew had cheated to win Bonheur, and Gerald Delaup, losing it, had died.
Digen eased the girl through changeover, cheating her of her normal breakout experience but putting her well on the path to a long and healthy life.
Just as we were finishing supper, an Englishman, who had been of the whist party, came up and told Walpole that the Italian had been caught cheating and had given the lie to their fellow Englishman, who had detected him, and that they had gone out together.
Next morning Count Torriano came to see me, thanked me for my punctuality, congratulated himself on the pleasure he expected to derive from my society, and told me he was very sorry we could not start for two days, as a suit was to be heard the next day between himself and a rascally old farmer who was trying to cheat him.
Every player has cheated death, surviving a killing dose of venom to balance on the edge of oblivion, returning with the magic puntas possess.
I have compelled the thief to refund this money, together with the fifty sequins of which he had likewise cheated me.
I beg to inform you that I am not simple enough to allow myself to be duped, and, what is worse, cheated in such a manner.
You need not be afraid of being cheated, as you will give the money to her personally when you have possessed yourself of her.
I was tired of being cheated, and I took hold of my pistols and pointed them at him, bidding him be gone instantly.