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Chicane

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Noun

1. chicane

a bridge hand that is void of trumps

2. chicane

a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file

3. chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile

the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Verb

4. cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft

defeat someone through trickery or deceit

5. carp, cavil, chicane

raise trivial objections

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Chicane

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noun
1. 
a bridge or whist hand without trumps
2. 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
3.  a less common word for chicanery
verb
4. (transitive)
to deceive or trick by chicanery
5. (transitive)
to quibble about; cavil over
6. (intransitive)
to use tricks or chicanery

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Chicane

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noun
1. 
chicanery
verb intransitiveWord forms: chiˈcaned or chiˈcaning
2. 
to use chicanery
verb transitive
3. 
to trick
4. 
to get by chicanery

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Chicane

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v. chi·caned, chi·can·ing, chi·canes
v.intr.
To resort to tricks or subterfuges; use chicanery.
v.tr.
To trick; deceive.
n.
1. Chicanery.
2. Games A bridge or whist hand without trumps.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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