[noun] [C]A cheat is a person who behaves in a dishonest way.Trouble broke out in the match when one of the players called a member of the other team a cheat.A cheat is also something dishonest which makes people believe that something is true when it is not.I made the cake using cocoa powder rather than chocolate - it's a bit of a cheat, but nobody will notice the difference.
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Meaning of CHEAT in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012