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cahoots

[kuh-hoot]

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go cahoots, to share equally; become partners: They went cahoots in the establishment of the store. Also, go in cahoot with, go in cahoots.

in cahoot/cahoots,

in partnership; in league.

in conspiracy: in cahoots with the enemy.

Origin:
1820–30, Americanism; perhaps < French cahute cabin, hut, equivalent to ca(bane) cabin + hutte hut

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In doing so, the young cop sees the captain's girl in cahoots with the crime boss.

Outright seizures of firms by criminal raiders, usually in cahoots with security or justice officers, are frequent.

In these dissenters' eyes, the merry pranksters of the digital age were in cahoots with robocops and superspooks.

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cahoots (kəˈhuːts)

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

[C19: of uncertain origin]

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Word Origin & History

cahoots

1829, Amer.Eng., said to be perhaps from Fr. cahute "cabin, hut" (12c.), but U.S. sources credit it to Fr. cohorte (see cohort), a word said to be in use in the South and West with a sense of "companions, confederates."

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cahoot

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Idioms & Phrases

cahoots

see under in league with.