1. Engage in deceitful behaviour; practice trickery or fraud
   "Who's cheating on the side?";
   - chisel [informal]
    
2. Deprive somebody of something by deceit
   "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme";
   - rip off [informal], chisel [informal]
    
3. Defeat someone through trickery or deceit
   "The con artist cheated the unsuspecting victim out of their savings";
   - chouse [archaic], shaft [informal], screw [informal], chicane, jockey
    
4. Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
   "She cheats on her husband";
   - cheat on, cuckold, betray, wander

1. Someone who obtains an advantage by unfair means, lying or breaking rules
   "The cheat was caught using hidden notes during the exam";
   - cheater
    
2. The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
   "that book is a cheat";
   - swindle, rig [archaic], fraud
    
3. A deception for profit to yourself
   "The card game ended when his cheat was discovered";
   - cheating
    
4. A card game in which players make declarations about cards and the others have to say whether they think they are lying
   "They spent the evening playing cheat";
    
5. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
   "Farmers worked to remove cheat from their wheat fields";
   - darnel, tare, bearded darnel, Lolium temulentum
    
6. Annual plant native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed, especially in wheat
   "cheat grass competed with the wheat crop";
   - chess, Bromus secalinus

Derived forms: cheats, cheating, cheated

Type of: beat, beat out, brome, bromegrass, card game, cards, cozen [literary], crush, deceit, deceive, deception, delude, dissembling, dissimulation, fiddle [Brit, informal], fraud, lead on, rye grass, ryegrass, shell [US], trounce, vanquish, victimise [Brit], victimize

Encyclopedia: Cheat