pl n (sometimes singular) informal
- US partnership; league (esp in the phrases go in cahoots with, go cahoot)
- in cahoots in collusion
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.