cahootsnoun [ plural ]
uk/kəˈhuːts/us/kəˈhuːts/informalin cahoots (with)
acting together with others for an illegal or dishonest purpose:
A banker and a government minister were in cahoots over a property deal.
It's reckoned that someone in the government was in cahoots with the assassin.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Plotting & trapping
- be in league with sb idiom
- catch sb out
- chicanery
- cloak-and-dagger
- collude
- conspire
- entrap
- entrapment
- hatch
- have a card up your sleeve idiom
- honey trap
- plot
- plotter
- put-up job
- scheme
- set-up
- snare
- sting
- stratagem
- trap
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