cahoot

plural cahoots

1. uncommonA company or partnership.
2. uncommonChiefly preceded by in: a group of people working together, chiefly for a nefarious reason; hence, a collaboration or collusion.

   Gineral Government and the ministration are going in cahoot to undermine and overrule the undertakings of the free people of Georgia.

   1827 September 15, "The Wanderer", “Barney Blinn”, in Norwalk Reporter and Huron Advertiser, Norwalk, OH, page 4

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   Nay, we feel in so pleasant a humour, at the recovery of the stolen articles, that we are really disposed to extend our forgiveness to the whole "Cahoot," the more particularly, as some of the suspected, have already "suffered in the flesh;"—[…]

   1831 November 9, Natchez Gazette, Natchez, MS, page 3

   Synonyms: cahoots

3. uncommonAn accomplice, a partner.

   This particular day he set the scene by arranging with his cahoots to clean up the local operators.

   1993, Mick Masson, Surviving the Dole Years: The 1930s, a Personal Story, →ISBN, page 108

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   Fisk and his “cahoots” have got at cross purposes, and he has been put out of bed. Whether Fisk is rightly or wrongly out of bed is not for Congress to determine.

   1869, United States Congress, Congressional Globe, page 538, column 3

   Intelligent and power loving Indraprabha took the advantage and agreed to become his cahoot in return of political supremacy.

   2000, Suhas Chatterjee, A Socio-Economic History of South Assam, →ISBN, page 98

present singular third person cahoots · participle present cahooting · participle past cahooted · past cahooted

1. intransitiveuncommonTo act in partnership.

   […] argument that we shouldn't be doing it, and if we do we'll fail, and if we succeed, our leaders were lying, tricking and cahooting with Halliburton?

   2003 June 6, “Thinking Right: Iraq, Clintons”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution