cheat on
To secretly do something bad that breaks the rules or hurts someone who trusts you — like kissing another person when you have a boyfriend or girlfriend, or copying answers on a test.
Meanings
To be sexually or romantically unfaithful to a romantic partner.
"She found out he had been cheating on her for almost a year before she confronted him."
""I cheated on my fiancée, and I'm not proud of it.""
— Tiger Woods, public apology statement, February 2010
To act dishonestly or break rules during an exam, test, or game.
"Three students were caught cheating on the final exam and received failing grades."
Very commonly used in both the romantic-betrayal sense and the academic-dishonesty sense. The romantic sense is the more emotionally loaded of the two. Neutral to informal in register; not considered slang.
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