Cheat
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Someone who cheats (informal: cheater). 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 computer game, often by entering a cheat code.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation. To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner. To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely. # To cheat death. # To cheat fate.
Example sentence: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
Shaft
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to equip something with a shaftTo have sexual intercourse with someoneTo engage in a malicious act; to rip off, as in "He got shafted."
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The long narrow body of a spear or arrowA beam or ray of lightAny long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, or the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive.The main axis of a featherThe long narrow body of a lacrosse stickA long narrow passage sunk into the earth, for mining etc; a mineshaft.A vertical or near-vertical cave passage.A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.A malicious act, as in “to give someone the shaft”The main narrow part of the penis
Example sentence: In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.