cahoots









cahoots


pl n (sometimes singular) informal

  1. US partnership; league (esp in the phrases go in cahoots with, go cahoot)
  2. in cahoots in collusion
n.

1829, American English, of unknown origin; said to be perhaps from French cahute “cabin, hut” (12c.), but U.S. sources credit it to French cohorte (see cohort), a word said to have been in use in the U.S. South and West with a sense of “companions, confederates.”

see cahoots.

see under in league with.

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