Meaning

5 senses
  1. Someone who cheats; something that cheats.

    Betrüger, Schwindler

    обма́нщикobmánščik, обма́нщицаobmánščica, моше́нникmošénnik

    шахра́йšaxráj, обма́нщикobmánščyk

    someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

  2. Someone who cheats; something that cheats.

    Synonym of adulterer.

  3. Something that a person uses while cheating (i.e., either literally or figuratively cheating).

    An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws, bolts, etc. that are difficult to remove with a ratchet or wrench alone.

  4. Any of various auxiliary lenses added to the visor of a welding hood to improve visibility, such as by providing refractive correction for presbyopia or providing magnification (e.g., 2×, 5×, 10×).

  5. (obsolete)An escheater.

Examples

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  1. Tom is a cheater.

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  2. Tom isn't a cheater.

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  3. You're a cheater.

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  4. Once a cheater, always a cheater.

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  5. Sami was a cheater and a beater.

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Translations

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Origin

From cheat + -er. The sense referring to welding hood lenses was inspired by cheaters (plu

From cheat + -er. The sense referring to welding hood lenses was inspired by cheaters (plural) as a pair of reading glasses.

From Middle English chetour, a variant of eschetour, from Old French eschetour, escheteur, equivalent to escheat + -er.

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Forms

plural: cheaters
Singularcheater
Pluralcheaters

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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