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Cheats a chap out of love (4)

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I believe the answer is:

does

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'cheats' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'a chap out of love' is the wordplay.
'a chap' becomes 'des' (**).
'out of' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'des' placed around 'o' is 'DOES'.

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(Other definitions for does that I've seen before include "takes one for a ride" , "Female deers" , "Acts" , "Carries out" , "Deer; performs" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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