CHEAT
What does "CHEAT" mean?
To act dishonestly or unfairly to gain an advantage.
Meanings
- To deceive or defraud someone, or to break rules for advantage. He was caught cheating on the exam with notes in his sleeve.
- To be sexually unfaithful to a partner. She left him after she found out he had cheated. informal
- A person who cheats; a fraud or trickster. Nobody wanted to play cards with the known cheat.
- To avoid or escape something undesirable, as if by trickery. The climber cheated death on that final pitch. figurative
Did you know?
- 'Cheat' began as a clipped form of the legal word 'escheat' - land seized by a lord; the corruption of officials who grabbed such estates poisoned the word into meaning 'defraud'.
Word origin
A shortening of Middle English 'escheat', a legal term for property reverting to the crown or lord when an owner died heirless; corrupt officials who seized such estates gave the word its dishonest sense.
Remember it
CHEAT contains 'EAT' - a cheater eats the share that wasn't theirs.
A little poem
He shaved the loaded
die so smooth it always won-
and trusted no one.
haiku
Wordplay
- I never cheat at hide-and-seek. The trophy for that game is impossible to find anyway.
What it teaches
Every cheat wins the round and loses the game no one can see them quitting.
Quick facts
What does CHEAT mean?
To act dishonestly or unfairly to gain an advantage.
Is CHEAT a valid word?
Yes — CHEAT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CHEAT?
CHEAT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CHEAT come from?
A shortening of Middle English 'escheat', a legal term for property reverting to the crown or lord when an owner died heirless; corrupt officials who seized such estates gave the word its dishonest sense.
What can CHEAT teach us?
Every cheat wins the round and loses the game no one can see them quitting.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.