Chicane

Quick meaning: Chicane is a noun meaning A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.

Meaning

A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.

More Meanings

1. The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.
2. (card games, chiefly bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.
3. (motor racing) A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.
4. (road transport) A raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.
5. (intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks, or subterfuge.
6. (transitive) To deceive.

Example Sentences

On lap 23, Hamilton got a run on Leclerc into the second chicane after the two had overtaken Nico Hulkenberg's out-of-stop-sequence Renault down the main straight.

‘That they may be unlearned in the detestable chicane of politics, is certain; but, they are also uncorrupted by the odious and pernicious maxims of the unfeeling tools of despotism.’

1775, Edmund Burke, speech on conciliation with America In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your Colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for.

Word Forms

• chicanes
• chicaning
• chicaned

Synonyms for chicane

Depending on context, synonyms include cavil, screw, chouse, carp, cheat, jockey.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chouse, cheat, cavil, shaft, jockey, screw.

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