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CAHOOT

Definition: CAHOOT

CAHOOT

Noun

1. Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Cahoot \Ca*hoot"\, noun. [Perhaps from f. cohorte company or band.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: CAHOOT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Party

Corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company; copartnership, partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock company; cahoot, combine, trust.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: CAHOOT

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot, na na na ("Respect Yourself"; performing artist: The Staple Singers)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: CAHOOT

Expression using "CAHOOT": be in cahoot with. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: CAHOOT

Language Translations for "CAHOOT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

punë e përbashkët (bee), marrëveshje e fhsehtë. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

همدم (Billy, Comate, Jo, Mate), تبانی (Collusion), شرکت (Bodycorporate, Corporation, Firm, Hand, Society, Unity). (various references)

   

German

  

Teilhaberschaft (copartnership, partnership). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συνεταιρισμόσ (association, copartnership, partnership, partship). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ahootcay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sociedade (association, body, club, community, company, corporation, fellowship, hookworm, membership, organization, partnership, society). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tovãrãşie (companionship, company, comradeship, fellowship, friendship, partnership, society). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сговор (collusion), соучастие (accessoriness, complicity, participation), сообщничество. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tajno sarađivati s nekim. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

socio (associate, business associate, fellow, member, partner, sidekick). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vara i maskopi med (be in cahoots, be involved with). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

işbirliği (association, cooperation, cooperative, league). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

співучасть (abetment, complicity, fellowship, participation), спільна справа, змова (plot), змовлятися (cabal, concert, conspire), діяти спільно (concur, conspire). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự thông lưng, sự ngoắc ngoặc. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CAHOOT

Derivations

Words beginning with "CAHOOT": cahoots. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CAHOOT"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "CAHOOT" (pronounced kuhuw"t)
3-h uw" thoot.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: CAHOOT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-o-o-t"

-1 letter: achoo.

-2 letters: chao, chat, coat, coho, coot, hoot, oath, tach, taco.

-3 letters: act, cat, coo, cot, hao, hat, hot, oat, oca, oho, ooh, oot, tao, tho, too.

-4 letters: ah, at, ha, ho, oh, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-o-o-t"
 

+1 letter: cahoots, ootheca.

 

+2 letters: coauthor, cohobate, oothecae, oothecal, outcoach, woodchat.

 

+3 letters: chocolate, chocolaty, coauthors, cohobated, cohobates, crapshoot, holocaust, housecoat, matchbook, matchwood, ochlocrat, sociopath, toothache, woodchats.

 

+4 letters: autochthon, broadcloth, caoutchouc, cartoonish, catholicoi, catholicon, catholicos, choanocyte, chocolates, chocolatey, coauthored, cohobating, crapshoots, holocausts, housecoats, matchbooks, matchwoods, moustachio, ochlocrats, octahedron, orthoclase, outcoached, outcoaches, pathologic, schoolmate, sociopaths, sociopathy, taphonomic, toothaches, trochoidal.

 

+5 letters: anacoluthon, antialcohol, apostrophic, arthroscope, arthroscopy, autochthons, autotrophic, auxotrophic, broadcloths, caoutchoucs, catholicons, chlorinator, chloroplast, choanocytes, chocolatier, chromoplast, coauthoring, cologarithm, crapshooter, ctenophoran, eschatology, ethological, hematologic, hepatotoxic, holoblastic, homeopathic, homeostatic, homogametic, homoplastic, homothallic, monochromat, moustachios, notochordal, ochlocratic, octahedrons, oligochaete, orthoclases, orthopaedic, orthostatic, osteopathic, outcoaching, phagocytose, phonotactic, photomosaic, photostatic, phototactic, prothoraces, prothoracic, protopathic, rhizoctonia, schoolmates, sociopathic, theological, thoracotomy, tomographic, topographic, tracheotomy, trichomonad, trichomonal, urochordate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CAHOOT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 41 48 4F 4F 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    ....    ---    ---    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01001000 01001111 01001111 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#72 &#79 &#79 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0048 004F 004F 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

373542494954

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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