Overview of noun cheat

The noun cheat has 5 senses

• darnel, tare, bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum -- (weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous)


• chess, cheat, Bromus secalinus -- (weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat)


• deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker -- (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)


• swindle, cheat, rig -- (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud")


• cheat, cheating -- (a deception for profit to yourself)

Overview of verb cheat

The verb cheat has 4 senses

• cheat, rip off, chisel -- (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")


• cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey -- (defeat someone through trickery or deceit)


• cheat, chisel -- (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?")


• cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander -- (be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?")