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cheater

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cheat⋅er

[chee-ter]
–noun
1. a person or thing that cheats.
2. cheaters, Slang.
a. eyeglasses; spectacles.
b. falsies.

Origin:
1300–50; ME; see cheat, -er 1
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cheat   (chēt)   
v.   cheat·ed, cheat·ing, cheats

v.   tr.
  1. To deceive by trickery; swindle: cheated customers by overcharging them for purchases.

  2. To deprive by trickery; defraud: cheated them of their land.

  3. To mislead; fool: illusions that cheat the eye.

  4. To elude; escape: cheat death.

v.   intr.
  1. To act dishonestly; practice fraud.

  2. To violate rules deliberately, as in a game: was accused of cheating at cards.

  3. Informal To be sexually unfaithful: cheat on a spouse.

  4. Baseball To position oneself closer to a certain area than is normal or expected: The shortstop cheated toward second base.

n.  
  1. An act of cheating; a fraud or swindle.

  2. One who cheats; a swindler.

  3. A computer application, password, or disallowed technique used to advance to a higher skill level in a computer video game.

  4. Law Fraudulent acquisition of another's property.

  5. Botany An annual European species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) widely naturalized in temperate regions.


[Middle English cheten, to confiscate, short for acheten, variant of escheten, from eschete, escheat; see escheat.]
cheat'er n.
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