To disappoint or deprive of by fraud or deceit; to defraud of.

transitive. To deceive by jugglery; to deceive, trick, cheat, beguile; to cheat out of something.

To make a fool of, to mock; to cheat (out of).

transitive. With of or (formerly occasionally) †from: to deny (a person) something expected or due; to frustrate the expectation or purpose of (a…

Const. of, out of: cf. cheat, v. 2 (out) of.

a name for a Spanish man (cf. diego, n.); hence as v., to cheat or ‘do’.

transitive. To cheat (a person) out of. Obsolete. Cf. cog, v.3 3b.

To bring into, out of a condition, etc., or to deprive of something by ‘shamming’ or deception. Obsolete.

With adv. or prep. To get (out, in, away, etc.) by trickery; to cheat or do out of.

slang. To get the better of, cheat, swindle, ‘do’; to cheat out of (money, etc.).

To give short measure to; to cheat (a person) out of something. Also figurative. U.S. colloquial.