cahoots

Idioms

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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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."

cahoot

see cahoots.

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Idioms & Phrases

cahoots

see under in league with.