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What is the noun for cheat?

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cheat
  1. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
  2. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
  3. The weed cheatgrass.
  4. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
  5. (video game) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “He's a sneaky cheat with no honor, pride, or even confidence in his crew to be able to win without constant interference.”
      “They are perpetrating a cheat and a fraud, which must be exposed for the scrutiny of the intellectual world of today.”
      “Is there a cheat to make my toddler max out its skills in The Sims?”
cheating
  1. An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition.
  2. (cinematography) The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “A special team has been assembled to apprehend the criminals involved in cheating and fraud.”
      “The husband's desire not to be embarrassed by his wife's cheating without his knowing is much stronger than the desire for his wife not to be cheating.”
cheater
  1. One who cheats.
  2. 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.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “My blind luck of being able to provide two versions of the correct answer saved me from the accusation of being a cheater.”
      “Oh, wait, no-no, he was still a beater and a cheater and sired a daughter who's got issues.”
      “He hadn't meant to kill her, but if there was anything he hated more than a cheater, it was a nagger.”
cheatery
  1. (obsolete) cheating; fraud
cheatee
cheaters
  1. plural of cheater
  2. (informal, plural only) Non-prescription spectacles that magnify.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “In a world full of liars, cheaters and the deceitful, who has always given me honesty?”
      “Other cheaters use Morse code with coins and various other tricks known to conjurers.”
      “It was maddening to see skiers I knew to be playing fair, guys who trained their hearts out with little financial reward, lose to the cheaters.”
cheatings
cheateries
  1. plural of cheatery
cheatees
cheats
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