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chicane
/ ʃɪˈkeɪn /
noun
- a bridge or whist hand without trumps
- motor racing a short section of sharp narrow bends formed by barriers placed on a motor-racing circuit to provide an additional test of driving skill
- See chicanerya less common word for chicanery
verb
- tr to deceive or trick by chicanery
- tr to quibble about; cavil over
- intr to use tricks or chicanery
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Derived Forms
- chiˈcaner, noun
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Other Words From
- chi·caner noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chicane1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chicane1
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Example Sentences
You will not wonder that I lose time and catch at every hope, rather than involve myself in that labyrinth of Chicane and expense.
A revoking side may score nothing either above or below the line except for honours or chicane.
He thinks that all the resources of ingenuity ought to be employed to baffle chicane, not to support it.
I never darkened it with absurd and contradictory notions, nor confounded it with chicane and sophistry.
Apparently Judge Dunder had in this case resolved to wink a little at chicane and decide for justice in the broader sense.
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