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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
- a 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
1665–75; < French chicane (noun), chicaner (v.), perhaps < Middle Low German schikken to arrange
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chicane1
C17: from French chicaner to quibble, of obscure origin
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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.
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A revoking side may score nothing either above or below the line except for honours or chicane.
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He thinks that all the resources of ingenuity ought to be employed to baffle chicane, not to support it.
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I never darkened it with absurd and contradictory notions, nor confounded it with chicane and sophistry.
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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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