cahoot /kəˈhuːt/noun 3verb 1forms 3 noun3 •A company or partnership. •Chiefly 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 •An accomplice, a partner.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 verb1 •To 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 formscahooted · cahooting · cahoots
