cheat

Meanings

Verb

• To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
• To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.
• To deceive; to fool; to trick.

Noun

• Someone who cheats.
• An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
• The weed cheatgrass.
• A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.

Related

Similar words

• double play

Origin

• From Middle English cheten, an aphetic variant of acheten, escheten, from Old French escheoiter, from the noun (see below). Displaced native .
• From Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete, escheat, from Anglo-Norman escheat, Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit, from the past participle of eschoir (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excadō, from Latin ex + cadō.