cheat sheet

See also: cheatsheet and cheat-sheet

English

Alternative forms

• cheat-sheet, cheatsheet

Etymology

From cheat + sheet.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Australia):

  (file)

Noun

cheat sheet (plural cheat sheets)

2. A sheet of paper (or a digital analogue thereof) containing notes used to assist (with or without permission) on a test; especially, such a sheet used secretly and improperly.

   Synonym: crib sheet

   Hypernym: answer sheet

   Coordinate term: cheater

   If you have trouble remembering all the trigonometric identities, the book has a cheat sheet in back that lists them.

4. (idiomatic) Any summary or quick reference used as a shortcut or reminder, such as an aid for public speaking.

   Hypernyms: aide-mémoire, pro memoria

   Coordinate term: non-paper

Translations

sheet of paper used to assist on a test

• Arabic:

  Tunisian Arabic: (without permission) فُوسكَة (fūskə)

• Armenian: հուշաթղթիկ (hušatʻġtʻik)
• Belarusian: шпарга́лка f (šparhálka)
• Bulgarian: пищо́в m (pištóv)
• Catalan: apunt amagat m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 貓紙 / 猫纸 (maau¹ zi²)

  Mandarin: 作弊條 / 作弊条 (zuòbìtiáo), 小抄 (zh) (xiǎochāo), 知識點列表 / 知识点列表 (zhīshìdiǎn lièbiǎo)

• Czech: tahák (cs) m
• Dutch: spiekbriefje (nl) n
• Finnish: lunttilappu (fi), luntti (fi) (often without permission); muistilappu (fi) (often with permission)
• French: antisèche (fr) f, pompe (fr) f
• Georgian: შპარგალკა (šṗargalḳa)
• German: Spickzettel (de) m, Schummelzettel (de) m, Spicker m
• Greek: σκονάκι (el) n (skonáki)
• Hebrew: שְלִיף (he)
• Hindi: चिटकुना (ciṭkunā)
• Hungarian: puska (hu)
• Italian: bigliettino m
• Japanese: カンニングペーパー (ja) (kanningu pēpā), カンペ (ja) (kanpe)
• Korean: 커닝 쪽지 (keoning jjokji), 커닝 페이퍼 (keoning peipeo)
• Kyrgyz: шпаргалка (ky) (şpargalka)
• Latvian: špikeris
• Polish: ściąga (pl) f, ściągawka (pl) f, ściągaczka f
• Portuguese: cábula (pt) f, cola (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: copiuță f, fițuică (ro) f
• Russian: шпарга́лка (ru) f (špargálka), шпо́ра (ru) f (špóra) (slang)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пу̏шкица f

  Latin: pȕškica (sh) f

• Slovak: ťahák m
• Slovene: plonk listek m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: špikowański cedlik m

  Upper Sorbian: špikcedlka f, cedlka k špikowanju f

• Spanish: machete (es) m (Argentina, Colombia), chuleta (es) f (Spain, Venezuela, Nicaragua), acordeón (es) m (Mexico), copialina f (Colombia), chivo (es) m (Guatemala), copiatín m (Paraguay), chepe m, copiazón m (Paraguay), trencito (es) m (colloquial), torpedo (es) m (Chile)
• Swedish: fusklapp (sv)
• Tagalog: kodigo
• Turkish: kopya kâğıdı (tr), kopya (tr)
• Ukrainian: шпарга́лка f (šparhálka)
• Uzbek: shpargalka (uz)
• Vietnamese: bản quay phim (vi), bản quay cóp (vi)

any summary or quick reference

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 簡要說明 / 简要说明 (jiǎnyào shuōmíng), 備忘單 / 备忘单 (bèiwàngdān)

• Finnish: muistilappu (fi), lunttilappu (fi)
• Serbo-Croatian: podsjetnik (sh) m
• Spanish: minuta (es) f, nota (es) f, acordeón (es) m (Mexico), torpedo (es) m (Chile)
• Turkish: hatırlatma kağıdı

Further reading

• cheat sheet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia