cheat vs counterfeit

cheat

noun
  • Someone who cheats. 

  • A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies. 

  • A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code. 

  • An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception. 

  • The weed cheatgrass. 

verb
  • To deceive; to fool; to trick. 

  • To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship. 

  • To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable. 

  • To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation. 

counterfeit

noun
  • One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter. 

  • A non-genuine article; a fake. 

verb
  • To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of. 

  • Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board. 

adj
  • Inauthentic. 

  • False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine. 

  • Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical. 

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