A Topical Dictionary: Search for cheat

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Verb

To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.

Translations

Czech: podvádět
Dutch: vals spelen
French: tricher
Italian: fregare

Icelandic: svindla
Spanish: hacer trampa

Czech: podvádět, to be nevěrný
Dutch: vreemdgaan
German: die Ehe brechen

Icelandic: halda framhjá
Spanish: engañar

Noun

Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.

Synonyms

(card game) bullshit, BS, I doubt it

Derived terms

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Cheat \Cheat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cheated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cheating.] [See Cheat, n., Escheat.]
1. To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to
swindle.
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I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his
cunning hath cheated me of this island. --Shak.
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2. To beguile. --Sir W. Scott.
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To cheat winter of its dreariness. --W. Irving.

Syn: To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent;
beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach;
delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Cheat \Cheat\, n. [rob. an abbrevation of escheat, lands or
tenements that fall to a lord or to the state by forfeiture,
or by the death of the tenant without heirs; the meaning
being explained by the frauds, real or supposed, that were
resorted to in procuring escheats. See Escheat.]
1. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of
fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;
imposture.
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When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. --Dryden.
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2. One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a
cheater.
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Airy wonders, which cheats interpret. --Johnson
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3. (Bot.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain
fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.
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4. (Law) The obtaining of property from another by an
intentional active distortion of the truth.
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Note: When cheats are effected by deceitful or illegal
symbols or tokens which may affect the public at large
and against which common prudence could not have
guarded, they are indictable at common law. --Wharton.

Syn: Deception; imposture; fraud; delusion; artifice; trick;
swindle; deceit; guile; finesse; stratagem.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Cheat \Cheat\, v. i.
To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Cheat \Cheat\, n. [Perh. from OF. chet['e] goods, chattels.]
Wheat, or bread made from wheat. [Obs.] --Drayton.
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Their purest cheat,
Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste.
--Chapman.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.]
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Note: Other species of brome grass are called {upright
chess}, soft chess, etc.
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WordNet cheat
n 1: weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other
cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
[syn: darnel, tare, bearded darnel, {Lolium
temulentum}]
2: weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a
weed especially in wheat [syn: chess, Bromus secalinus]
3: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
[syn: deceiver, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker]
4: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book
is a fraud" [syn: swindle, rig]
5: a deception for profit to yourself [syn: cheating]
v 1: 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]
2: defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
[syn: chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey]
3: engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud;
"Who's chiseling on the side?" [syn: chisel]
4: 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]

Moby Dictionary
ballot-box stuffing , bamboozle , bamboozlement , beat , befool ,
beguile , beguile of , bilk , blackleg , boodle , bunco , burn ,
cardsharping , charlatan , cheater , cheating , chicane , chicanery ,
chisel , chiseler , chouse , chouse out of , clinquant , cog ,
cog the dice , con , con man , confidence man , counterfeit , cozen ,
cozenage , cozener , crib , crook , deceit , deceive , deceiver ,
deception , defraud , defrauder , delude , diddle , diddler , diddling ,
dishonesty , do , do in , do out of , dodge , doodle , double-cross ,
double-dealer , double-dealing , duff , dummy , dupe , euchre , evade ,
fake , fakement , faker , falsify , fiddle , finagle , fishy transaction ,
flam , fleece , flimflam , flimflam man , flimflammer , fob , fool ,
forgery , frame-up , fraud , fraudulence , fraudulency , fudge ,
gerrymandering , gouge , graft , grift , gull , gyp , gyp artist ,
gyp joint , gypper , hanky-panky , have , hoax , hocus , hocus-pocus ,
hoodwink , humbug , illicit business , imitation , imposition ,
impostor , imposture , juggler , junk , lie , mace , mislead , mock ,
mountebank , mulct , operator , overreach , pack the deal , paste ,
phony , pigeon , pinchbeck , practice fraud upon , put-on , put-up job ,
racket , ream , rip off , rip-off , rogue , rook , scam , screw , sell ,
sell gold bricks , sham , shark , sharp practice , sharper , sharpie ,
shave , shift , shift about , shoddy , short , shortchange , simulacrum ,
skin , slick , stack the cards , stick , sting , sucker , swindle ,
swindler , take , take a dive , take in , thimblerig , throw a fight ,
tinsel , trick , trickery , trickster , two-timer , victimize ,
whited sepulcher