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Nov 20, 2015 · Cahoot \Ca-hoot"\, n. [Perhaps fr. f. cohorte a company or band.] Partnership; league; as, to go in cahoot (or in cahoots) with a person. Usually used in the plural, and in modern usage often used to imply that the joint effort is unethical, shady, questionable, or illegal; as, a shill in cahoots with a pickpocket, to serve as a distraction.
Jul 25, 2016 · Cahoots only occurs in the phrase in cahoots (with), just like the nouns collaboration, company, and association do -- except other nouns can occur with or without prepositions, in many roles. Cahoots, like bucket in kick the bucket, is simply frozen. Knowing that it seems like a noun is of no utility whatever when dealing with an idiom, since ...
Sep 28, 2021 · Collude is an activity verb and usually takes the transitivizing preposition with, while cahoots is a noun appearing only in the idiom be in cahoots with, meaning 'colluding with'. Aside from those differences, collude is in a higher register than cahoots. Also, being in cahoots with somebody is a relatively permanent relation, while collusion ...
