A Quick and Simple Dictionary

cheat

1. Verb.  (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
2. Verb.  (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
3. Verb.  (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
4. Verb.  (context, in modern usage, only used with "cheat someone out of" or "cheat one's way into something") To deceive; to fool; to trick.
5. Noun.  Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
6. Noun.  A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
7. Noun.  A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.