Cahoot

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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. [Slang, southwestern
     U. S.] --Bartlett.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]