A student who cribs in the examination is a cheat.
A person who cheats on his/her spouse, i.e. a husband who has sex with another woman or a wife who has sex with another man secretly, is a cheat and is punishable by the law.
A lady customer to a shopkeeper who sold low quality items at high prices: “You cheat! You said these things are of excellent quality…!”
The other word “cheater”, meaning a person who cheats, considered wrong in the past , is now becoming accepted for ‘cheat’.
The word ‘cheat’ is more commonly used as a verb to refer to the act of telling lies or showing something that is not true or making someone believe something that is not true, etc., to get money or other benefits., e.g. “He cheated on the test.”, “She cheats on her husband.”, etc.
cheat/cheat grass (a kind of grass plant)
‘Cheat’, also called ‘cheat grass’/'cheatgrass’, ‘drooping brome’ or ‘downy brome’, is also the name of a kind of grass grown in the grain fields on the foothills of Eurasia and Rocky Mountains. It is known to grow wild and is hard to control. Cheatgrass is a winter annual plant whose seeds sprout in the fall season and matures in the spring season and turns brown and dies when the summer season begins. As it dies in the summer, the dry cheatgrass becomes a wildfire hazard.
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Note: ‘Cheat’, ‘to cheat/cheats — cheated — cheated — cheating’, is more commonly used as a verb word to mean to trick somebody into believing something that is not true or real by telling lies and showing false evidence.
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