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cahoot orig. U.S.|kəˈhuːt|
[prob. a. F. cahute (see cahute): cf. the uses of cabin, cabinet. But American dictionaries refer it to F. cohorte.]
‘Used in the South and West to denote a company, or partnership’ (Bartlett). Freq. in pl., esp. in phr. in cahoot(s) (with): in league or partnership (with).
18..Chron. Pineville (Bartlett), I wouldn't swar he wasn't in cahoot with the devil. 1829S. Kirkham Eng. Gram. 207 Hese in cohoot with me. 1834S. S. Prentiss in J. D. Shields Life (1884) 239, I will splice the member from North Carolina to you, and for a short time will consider you in cahoot. 1862G. K. Wilder MS. Diary 14 May (D.A.E.), Mc wished me to go in cahoots in a store. 1889K. Munroe Golden Days 26 Are you willing to work in cahoots with yours truly? 1892Congress. Rec. 16 Mar. 2133/1 Let's go into cahoots and go a coon hunting. 1899G. Ade Doc' Horne xxv. 280, I have good reasons for thinking they were in cahoots. 1953A. Upfield Murder must Wait xii. 108 She was in cahoots with a doctor.
Hence cahoot v. to act in partnership.
1857N.Y. Herald 20 May (Bartlett), They all agree to cahoot with their claims against Nicaragua and Costa Rica. |