cahoots

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I assume the implication is that Wikileaks is somehow in cahoots with Russia?

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Chiefly preceded by in: collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason.

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noun

Chiefly preceded by in: collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for cahoots.

noun

Chiefly preceded by in: collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason.

Example sentences

I assume the implication is that Wikileaks is somehow in cahoots with Russia?

It's since become clear that Google was not in cahoots with the NSA, just like Drummond said.

The FTC seems powerless to stop Cardholder Services, or perhaps is actually in cahoots with them.

Along with the other of the Five Eyes (New Zealand, Australia, Canada) who are all in cahoots with one another...

They are (if charitable) under the same incentives as (if not charitable, they are in cahoots with) the rest of the government.

A good portion of the justice system is in cahoots with investigators' tactics because it puts people they believe are guilty behind bars.

Todays news implied that Iran, China and North Korea were in cahoots and aggressively attacked Sony for months and finally penetrated their bastion.

All these organizations are in cahoots, literally, and so no prosecutor is going to indict a judge or cop unless they absolutely have to.

He went after a casino, which is in cahoots with the government.

It's no good having a perfect, Stallman-esque, phone if all your communication is through a mobile phone operator in cahoots with the government, is it?

I think it is understood pretty well by those large organizations, and also the politicians that they are in cahoots with.

Also, you'd probably want >1 ATC person to authorise to reduce the chance of the door being unlocked by someone at ATC in cahoots with hijackers.

Quote examples

I do not understand how a reasonable person who is not in cahoots with "big internet" can see this as a bad thing.

The tax exemption status is federal, while each of those stadium negotiations is done at the state level, and in cahoots with the league owners and teams of those states, not the "NFL" organization at large.

They're the "gatekeepers" and they're asleep on the job, or worse in cahoots with the publishers (because publishers give them a way to keep tuition lower, by doing the grading on your teacher's behalf via one-time-use codes, instead of the school/department needing to hire more graders or develop systems).