1.  cheat(n = noun.plant) bearded darnel, darnel, lolium temulentum, tare - weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous;
is a kind of rye grass, ryegrass

2.  cheat(n = noun.plant) bromus secalinus, chess - weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat;
is a kind of brome, bromegrass

3.  cheat(n = noun.person) beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true;
is a kind of offender, wrongdoer
has particulars: bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer
Derived form verb cheat₃

4.  cheat(n = noun.act) rig, swindle - the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
is a kind of fraud
has particulars: cozenage, scam, bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, sting, pyramiding, holdout, swiz, shell game, thimblerig
Derived form verb cheat₂

5.  cheat(n = noun.act) cheating - a deception for profit to yourself;
is a kind of deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation
has particulars: gerrymander
Derived form verb cheat₁

1.  cheat(v = verb.social) chisel, rip off - deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
is one way to victimise, victimize
Derived forms noun cheat₅, noun cheater₁, noun cheating₁
Sample sentences: Sam cannot cheat Sue ; They cheat him of all his money

2.  cheat(v = verb.competition) chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft - defeat someone through trickery or deceit;
is one way to beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
Derived forms noun cheat₄, noun cheater₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something

3.  cheat(v = verb.social) chisel - engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"
is one way to cozen, deceive, delude, lead on
Derived forms noun cheat₃, noun cheater₁, noun cheating₁
Sample sentences: Sam and Sue cheat

4.  cheat(v = verb.social) betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander - be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
is one way to cozen, deceive, delude, lead on
Sample sentences: Sam cannot cheat Sue

1.  An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. [1913 Webster]
"When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat." [1913 Webster]

2.  One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater. [1913 Webster]
"Airy wonders, which cheats interpret." [1913 Webster]

3.  A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess. [1913 Webster]

4.  The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth. [1913 Webster]
" When cheats are effected by deceitful or illegal symbols or tokens which may affect the public at large and against which common prudence could not have guarded, they are indictable at common law. Wharton. " Wharton.

1.  To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. [1913 Webster]
"I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island." [1913 Webster]

2.  To beguile. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
"To cheat winter of its dreariness."

   To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards. [1913 Webster]

   Wheat, or bread made from wheat. Drayton. [1913 Webster]
"Their purest cheat,
Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste." [1913 Webster]

cheat, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. a (often foll. by into, out of) deceive or trick (cheated into parting with his savings). b (foll. by of) deprive of (cheated of a chance to reply).
2 intr. gain unfair advantage by deception or breaking rules, esp. in a game or examination.
3 tr. avoid (something undesirable) by luck or skill (cheated the bad weather).
4 tr. archaic divert attention from, beguile (time, tedium, etc.).
--n.
1 a person who cheats.
2 a trick, fraud, or deception.
3 an act of cheating.

Idiom:
cheat on colloq. be sexually unfaithful to.

Derivative:
cheatingly adv.

Etymology:
ME chete f. achete, var. of ESCHEAT

N  deception, falseness, untruth, imposition, imposture, fraud, deceit, guile, fraudulence, fraudulency, covin, knavery, misrepresentation, bluff, straw-bail, straw bid, spoof, delusion, gullery, juggling, jugglery, slight of hand, legerdemain, prestigiation, prestidigitation, magic, conjuring, conjuration, hocus-pocus, escamoterie, jockeyship, trickery, coggery, chicanery, supercherie, cozenage, circumvention, ingannation, collusion, treachery, practical joke, trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite, card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck, artful dodge, swindle, tricks upon travelers, stratagem, confidence trick, fake, hoax, theft, ballot-box stuffing, barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game, shell game, thimblerig, skin game, snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin, springe, springle, noose, hoot, bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens, cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime, dionaea, Venus's flytrap, ambush, trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom, spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery, mine, flytrap, green goods, panel house, Cornish hug, wolf in sheep's clothing, disguise, disguisement, false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes, pattes de velours, mockery, copy, counterfeit, sham, make- believe, forgery, fraud, lie, a delusion a mockery and a snare, hollow mockery, whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher, tinsel, paste, junk jewelry, costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels, scagliola, ormolu, German silver, albata, paktong, white metal, Britannia metal, paint, veneer, jerry building, man of straw, illusion, ignis fatuus, mirage, deceived, deceiving, cunning, prestigious, prestigiatory, deceptive, deceptious, deceitful, covinous, delusive, delusory, illusive, illusory, elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus, untrue, mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious bastard, surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated, unsound, rotten at the core, colorable, disguised, meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated, catchpenny, Brummagem, artificial, synthetic, ersatz, simulated, under false colors, under the garb of, under cover of, over the left, keep the word of promise to the ear and break it t, fronti nulla fides, ah that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, a quicksand of deceit, decipimur specie recti, falsi crimen, fraus est celare fraudem, lupus in fabula, so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of virtue.

VB  deceive, take in, defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize, abuse, mystify, blind one's eyes, blindfold, hoodwink, throw dust into the eyes, dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle, trick, impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm off on, palm upon, foist upon, snatch a verdict, bluff off, bluff, bunko, four flush, gum, spoof, stuff (a ballot box), circumvent, overreach, outreach, out wit, out maneuver, steal a march upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle, entrap, intrap, ensnare, nick, springe, set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for, bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime, trapan, trepan, kidnap, let in, hook in, nousle, nousel, blind a trail, enmesh, immesh, shanghai, catch, catch in a trap, sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity, hum, humbug, gammon, stuff up, sell, play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on, balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale, fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand, make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of, trifle with, cajole, flatter, come over, gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon, dissemble, cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck, live by one's wits, play at hide and seek, obtain money under false pretenses, conjure, juggle, practice chicanery, deacon, play off, palm off, foist off, fob-off, lie, misinform, mislead, betray, be deceived.

N  deceiver &c (deceive), dissembler, hypocrite, sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe, Janus, serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing, jilt, shuffler, stool pigeon, liar &c (lie), story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, Scapin, bunko steerer, carpetbagger, capper, faker, fraud, four flusher, horse coper, ringer, spieler, straw bidder, imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug, adventurer, Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto, ass in lion's skin, actor, quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, Rosicrucian, gypsy, man of straw, conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey, crimp, decoy, decoy duck, rogue, knave, cheat, swindler, jobber, saint abroad and a devil at home.

cheat on, downy cheat