(intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.

Someone who cheats. / An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception. / The weed cheatgrass.

(obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheat, on. / (colloquial, idiomatic, transitive) To be unfaithful to, especially in a romantic relationship.

present participle of cheat

An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.

Unsporting or underhand. / Unfaithful or adulterous.

Having been deceived.

simple past tense and past participle of cheat

plural of cheat