cahoots
noun/kəˈhuːts/
/kəˈhuːts/
Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally US): of unknown origin.
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See cahoots in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe in cahoots (with somebody)
- (informal) to be planning or doing something dishonest with somebody else
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