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Definition of Cahoots
1. cahoot [n] - See also: cahoot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cahoots
Literary usage of Cahoots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1888 Seibert and Noland are in cahoots. Seibert's friends will — Washington Post,
nd (Farmer). 1892 You are trying to get me to go in cahoot with you, ..."
2. Speeches of William Jennings Bryan by William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1909)
"A white boy said to a colored boy, "Let's go into cahoots and go a coon ...
But compelled to put up with the "cahoots." Yes, and when the employee asks for ..."
3. The Heart of Happy Hollow by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1904)
"VIII cahoots IN the centre of the quaint old Virginia grave-yard stood two monuments
... On tne other was the simple and perplexing inscription, " cahoots. ..."
4. The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin (1911)
""cahoots" is another example. When the warlike Jim Hooker said to Clarence, "
Young fel, you and me are cahoots in this thing," he was using a common ..."
5. Light-Fingered Gentry by David Graham Phillips (1907)
"So, they told her to go down to some offices on the floor below—it was a firm
that's in cahoots with them insurance sharks. And she went, and they give her ..."
6. The Girl's Own Outdoor Book, Containing Practical Help to Girls on Matters by Charles Peters (1889)
"The cahoots—one of which so nearly threw you out on your first journey—are ...
These cahoots are of two kinds : the most common is that caused by a ground ..."
7. Meat-packer Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House by United States Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture (1920)
"I got the cahoots, but if the cahoots are good enough I just as leave have ...
"Well,'' he said, "you see we were in cahoots, and I think I got the cahoots. ..."
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