cheater

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who acts dishonestly to gain an advantage

   The cheater was expelled after copying answers during the exam.

From cheat + -er. Cheat is an aphetic form of escheat ('reversion of property to the state'), from Old French escheoir ('to fall to one's lot'), from Late Latin *excadere, from Latin ex- + cadere ('to fall').

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