cheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: cheats
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete (“the reversion of property to the state”), from Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of escheoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excadēre, from Latin ex- + cadere (“fall”).
Senses: examples: text: When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
synonyms: fraud
trick
imposition
imposture
glosses: An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
examples: text: And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; but some went betwixt them, and with much ado and much struggling and cursing they were parted, and it being shown that the dice were not loaded, the son of Corund was fain to make amends to Corinius, and so were they set at one again.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33:
text: The caseworker couldn't understand how I could have stretched out my last bit of money for so long. She seemed convinced that I was "hiding" income from her and interrogated me for I don't know how long […] The system seems based on the assumption that people are "welfare cheats. If you don't speak English or are marginal in some other way, it's worse. I wish they'd put the Defense Department through what we go through.
ref: 1990 February 4, Margy Dowzer, Mary Frances Platt, Aviva Shmuckler, “Disability And Accessibility Cost Money!”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 13:
synonyms: word: cheater
word: bandit
glosses: Someone who cheats.
glosses: The weed cheatgrass.
topics: card-games
games
synonyms: bullshit
BS
I doubt it
glosses: A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
examples: text: I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]
ref: 1992 January, Phil Howard, “Cheat Mode”, in Amstrad Action, number 76, page 32:
topics: video-games
glosses: A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
Derived terms: sense: derived from Etymology 1 or 2
word: anticheat
sense: derived from Etymology 1 or 2
word: becheat
sense: derived from Etymology 1 or 2
word: cheatable
sense: derived from Etymology 1 or 2
word: cheat-bread
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word: cheat code
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word: cheat curl
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word: cheat day
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word: cheat death
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word: cheatee
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word: cheater
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word: cheatery
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word: cheat fate
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word: cheat grass
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word: cheating
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word: cheating death
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word: cheatless
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word: cheatlike
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word: cheatline
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word: cheat meal
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word: cheat on
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word: cheat out
sense: derived from Etymology 1 or 2
word: cheat out of
sense: derived from Etymology 1 or 2
word: cheat sheet
sense: derived from Etymology 1 or 2
word: cheat the hangman
sense: derived from Etymology 1 or 2
word: cheat the pocket
sense: derived from Etymology 1 or 2
word: cheaty
sense: derived from Etymology 1 or 2
word: cybercheat
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word: micro-cheat
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word: nubbing cheat
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word: outcheat
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word: play cheat
sense: derived from Etymology 1 or 2
word: uncheatable
sense: derived from Etymology 1 or 2
word: windcheater