cheat¹ /chēt/

1. A person who cheats
2. A fraud
3. A deception
4. A computer program, piece of software or technique that allows a user, esp a game player, to carry out an unauthorized action
5. A card game in which deception is allowed
6. An escheat, a forfeit (obsolete)
7. A piece of plunder, a stolen thing (obsolete)
8. A thing in general, esp the gallows (criminal sl; see also nubbing-cheat under nub³)

To deceive, defraud or impose upon

To be deceitful

cheatˈer noun

1. A person who cheats
2. An officer who collected the fines and taxes to be paid into the Exchequer (historical)
3. (in pl) spectacles (old N Am sl)
4. (in pl) falsies (slang)

cheatˈery noun (informal)

Cheating

cheatˈing noun and adjective

cheat on (informal)

To deceive, esp to be unfaithful to (one's wife, husband, lover, etc)

put a cheat upon

To deceive

tame cheater (Shakespeare)

A decoy

cheat² /chēt/

Another name for chess³

cheat bread noun (obsolete)

Bread of a lower quality than manchet, made of a somewhat coarser wheat flour

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