Word of the Day Friday, November 09

cahoots
 \ kuh-HOOT \  ,
noun;
1.In partnership; in league.

Quotes:
The soldier could only have concluded that my grandfather was in serious cahoots  with John Brown, and attention of that kind could destroy everything.
-- Marilynne Robinson, Gilead: A Novel

The dreamers did not know that Kuyo and I, as if in cahoots  with the soldiers, had trapped and imprisoned them on the island.
-- Russell Banks, The Darling: A Novel

Origin: Cahoots  enters English in the United States in the 1800s, possibly derived from the French cahute , "cabin, hut," but others trace it to the roots of the English word cohort.

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