Usually means: Deceive to gain unfair advantage.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. cheat: Merriam-Webster
  2. cheat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cheat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cheat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cheat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cheat, cheat: Wordnik
  7. cheat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cheat: Wiktionary
  9. cheat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cheat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cheat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cheat, cheat: Dictionary.com
  13. cheat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cheat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cheat (disambiguation), Cheat (game), Cheat, Cheat, The cheat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cheat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cheat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cheat: Rhymezone
  19. cheat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cheat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cheat: FreeDictionary.org
  22. cheat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cheat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. cheat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. cheat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. cheat: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cheat: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cheat: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cheat, cheat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cheat: Card Games

(Note: See cheated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
verb:  (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
verb:  (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
verb:  (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
noun:  An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
noun:  Someone who cheats.
noun:  The weed cheatgrass.
noun:  (card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
noun:  (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
noun:  (obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.

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