Definitions for cheats

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cheats cheat

Spelling: [cheet]

IPA: /tʃit/

Cheats is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in cheats (acehst).

Definitions for cheats

noun

1. a person who acts dishonestly, deceives, or defrauds:
2. a fraud; swindle; deception:
3. Law. the fraudulent obtaining of another's property by a pretense or trick.
4. an impostor:

verb (used with object)

1. to defraud; swindle:
2. to deceive; influence by fraud:
3. to elude; deprive of something expected:

verb (used without object)

1. to practice fraud or deceit:
2. to violate rules or regulations:
3. to take an examination or test in a dishonest way, as by improper access to answers.
4. Informal. to be sexually unfaithful (often followed by on):

Origin of cheats

1325-75; Middle English chet (noun) (aphetic for achet, variant of eschet escheat); cheten to escheat, derivative of chet (noun)

Examples for cheats

cheat, in other words—on God, on our fellow man, ultimately, on ourselves.

If a Queen did cheat, her crimes fade into insignificance compared to the extensive philandering engaged in by medieval monarchs.

He was fond of saying indelicate things, and used to cheat at cards.

We thought it no harm to cheat the people of the canteens, for we knew they were doing all they could to cheat us.

He so humble, so aged, so loth to take our money—and yet a villain and a cheat.

A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding.

Clients who are wary of online transactions are liable to see escorts with print ads as less likely to cheat or scam  them.

And if so, is it possible to “cheat” without feeling the effects or seeing them on the scale?

The Bacillus is a cheat; every woman to her lover is the most beautiful!

Vennare adds that cheat days can occasionally do more harm than good.