cheat on
verb
cheated on; cheating on; cheats on
informal
: to break a promise made to (someone, such as one's wife or husband) by having sex with someone else
He cheated on his wife/girlfriend.
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It was captured shortly after the Houston rapper publicly accused Thompson, who plays for the Dallas Mavericks, of cheating on her.
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Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
Coaches can cheat on their wives with NFL insiders, players can beat their wives and girlfriends, and teams will still keep them around.
—Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
These handsome galoots may cheat on their spouses or worse, but this allows the women to smolder in drifting chiffon.
—Libby Gelman-Waxner, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2026
Fallen Angels itself — about a pair of witty, worldly besties who get blitzed on champagne while considering cheating on their husbands with a mutual old flame — landed its author in trouble with the censors in London.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
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Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
Coaches can cheat on their wives with NFL insiders, players can beat their wives and girlfriends, and teams will still keep them around.
—Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
These handsome galoots may cheat on their spouses or worse, but this allows the women to smolder in drifting chiffon.
—Libby Gelman-Waxner, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2026
Fallen Angels itself — about a pair of witty, worldly besties who get blitzed on champagne while considering cheating on their husbands with a mutual old flame — landed its author in trouble with the censors in London.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
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“Cheat on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheat%20on. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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