Definition of "cheat"

cheat¹

/t͡ʃiːt/

verb
third-person singular simple present cheats, present participle cheating, simple past and past participle cheated
1. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
2. (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.
3. (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
4. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
  Quotations
  I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
  [T]he holly providentially planted about the house, to cheat winter of its dreariness, and throw in a gleam of green summer to cheer the fireside:—all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind.
  1819 July 31, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rural Life in England”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number II, New York, N.Y.: […] C. S. Van Winkle, […], page 130
  The gig ended with Rotten uttering the now famous line, “Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?” On January 17, the Sex Pistols split up.
  2018, Peter Smith, quoting Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols: The Pride of Punk, Rowman & Littlefield, page xxvi
5. (informal, intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.

cheat²

/t͡ʃiːt/

noun
plural cheats
1. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
  Quotations
  When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat.
  1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, (please specify the page number)
2. Someone who cheats.
3. The weed cheatgrass.
4. (card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
5. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
  Quotations
  I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]
  1992 January, Phil Howard, “Cheat Mode”, in Amstrad Action, number 76, page 32

cheat³

/t͡ʃiːt/

noun
uncountable
1. (obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.
  Quotations
  The raueled cheat therfore is generallie ſo made that out of one buſhell of meale, after two and twentie pounds of bran be ſifted and taken from it (wherevnto they ad the gurgeons that riſe from the manchet) they make thirtie cast, euerie lofe weighing eightéene ounces into the ouen and ſixteene ounces out […]
  1587, Raphaell Holinshed, Iohn Hooker, “Of the food and diet of the Engliſh”, in The firſt and ſecond volumes of Chronicles […] , volume I, London: Henry Denham, page 169
  Takes part with them, at ſhore: their pureſt cheat, / Thrice boulted, kneaded, and ſubdu'd in paſt […]
  c. 1624, Homer, translated by George Chapman, The crowne of all Homers workes Batrachomyomachia […] ‎, Iohn Bill, page 3
  Where by the way note, that loaves made of pure Wheaten Meal require both more Leaven and more labouring, and more baking than either coarſe Cheat or than Bread Mingled of Meal and Grudgins.
  1746, Thomas Moffett, Christopher Bennet, Health's Improvement […] ‎, London: T. Oſborne, page 339

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