cheat

n

1. cheater, swindler, fraud, confidence man, Sl. con man, Sl. flim-flam man, crook, chiseler; fake, phony, humbug, trickster, inveigler, bam-boozler, dissembler, bluff, pettifogger; sharper, sharpie, shark, bilker, diddler; adventurer, rogue, picaroon, rascal, wolf in sheep's clothing, knave, deceiver, Sl. fourflusher; imposter, masquerader, pretender, mountebank, hypocrite, charlatan, Inf. quack.

2. cheating, fraud, swindle, confidence game, Sl. con game, Sl. flim-flam game, Sl. rip-off; deception, pretense, trick, hoax, imposture, artifice.

v

3. swindle, defraud, fleece, rook, gull, Archaic. chouse; overcharge, Sl. soak, Inf. gyp, Sl. chisel, Sl. gaff, pluck, mulct; victimize, exploit, play on or upon, take advantage of, Inf. diddle, Inf. do, Sl. burn.

4. delude, deceive, beguile, mislead, hoodwink; pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes, cozen, bluff, take in, bamboozle, bilk, hornswoggle, cully, jockey, Inf. buffalo, Inf. finagle, Sl. con, Sl. flim-flam, Sl. flam, Sl. sting, Sl. put across; trick, spoof, outwit, overreach, circumvent, get around, put one over on.

5. plagiarize, crib, lift; rig, fix, throw; stack the deck, mark the cards, load the dice.

6. cheat on

play around, fool around; deceive, betray, play false, be unfaithful or untrue to, cuckold, Inf. two-time.