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Definition of Chicane
1. Verb. Defeat someone through trickery or deceit.
Generic synonyms: Beat, Beat Out, Crush, Shell, Trounce, Vanquish
Derivative terms: Cheat, Cheater, Chicanery
2. Noun. A bridge hand that is void of trumps.
3. Verb. Raise trivial objections.
Generic synonyms: Object
Derivative terms: Carper, Cavil, Caviler, Caviller
4. Noun. A movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file.
5. Noun. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).
Generic synonyms: Deceit, Deception, Dissembling, Dissimulation
Specialized synonyms: Dupery, Fraud, Fraudulence, Hoax, Humbug, Put-on, Jugglery
Derivative terms: Trick, Wily
Definition of Chicane
1. n. The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
2. v. i. To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.
3. n. In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors.
Definition of Chicane
1. Noun. (context: road transport) A temporary barrier, or serpentine curve, on a vehicular path, especially one designed to reduce speed. ¹
2. Noun. Chicanery. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To deceive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chicane
1. to trick [v -CANED, -CANING, -CANES] - See also: trick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chicane
Literary usage of Chicane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Auction Developments by Milton Cooper Work (1913)
"THE ELIMINATION OF chicane The total elimination of chicane from the game of ...
chicane has been taken out of the game, because, while it was perfectly ..."
2. Undercurrents in American Politics: Comprising the Ford Lectures, Delivered by Arthur Twining Hadley (1915)
"Political chicane has not been eliminated. It has simply been transferred from
the hands of a party organization to the hands of individuals or groups of ..."
3. History of the Land Tenures and Land Classes of Ireland: With an Account of by George Sigerson (1871)
"POST-CELTIC LAND SYSTEMS.—NORSE AND ANGLO-SAXON SETTLERS.—OFFICIAL INTRODUCTION
OF ANGLO-NORMAN FEUDAL CODE.—THE WAR OF chicane.- MAONA CHARTA. ..."
4. Helen with the High Hand: An Idyllic Diversion by Arnold Bennett (1911)
"... CHAPTER XVIII chicane HE came downstairs early, as he had done after a previous
sleepless night — also caused by Helen. That it would be foolish, ..."
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