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cahoots

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ca·hoots  (k-hts)
pl.n. Informal
Questionable collaboration; secret partnership: an accountant in cahoots with organized crime.

[Perhaps from French cahute, cabin, from Old French, possibly blend of cabane; see cabin, and hutte; see hut.]

cahoots [kəˈhuːts]
pl n (sometimes singular) Informal
1. US partnership; league (esp in the phrases go in cahoots with, go cahoot)
in cahoots in collusion
[of uncertain origin]
Translations
cahoots [kəˈhuːts] NPL to be in cahoots with sbestar conchabado con algn
cahoots [kəˈhuːts] n
to be in cahoots with → être de mèche avec
cahoots
n (inf) to be in cahoots with somebodymit jdm unter einer Decke stecken
cahoots [kəˈhuːts] npl (fam) to be in cahoots (with sb)essere in combutta (con qn)
cahoots [kəˈhuːts] npl (fam) to be in cahoots (with sb)essere in combutta (con qn)


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The report contained some good news, in that there is little evidence terrorists and pirate syndicates are in cahoots.
In July, when Israel's destruction of Lebanon had accelerated, a variation of this discourse began to emerge: the notion that one cannot rightly distinguish between terrorists and civilians because most of the civilians in Lebanon were either in cahoots or sympathy with Hizbullah.
Apparently, this vertically-challenged guy was in cahoots with the whole bar, as the entire crowd of people followed as Machnau and the midget were being dragged out the door.
 
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