The other word “cheater”, meaning a person who cheats, considered wrong in the past , is now becoming accepted for ‘cheat’.

‘Cheat’, also called ‘cheat grass’/’cheatgrass’, ‘drooping brome’ or ‘downy brome’, is also the name of a kind of grass grown in the grain fields on the foothills of Eurasia and Rocky Mountains. It is known to grow wild and is hard to control. Cheatgrass is a winter annual plant whose seeds sprout in the fall season and matures in the spring season and turns brown and dies when the summer season begins. As it dies in the summer, the dry cheatgrass becomes a wildfire hazard.

Note: ‘Cheat’, ‘to cheat/cheats — cheated — cheated — cheating’, is more commonly used as a verb word to mean to trick somebody into believing something that is not true or real by telling lies and showing false evidence.