Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To resort to tricks or subterfuges; use chicanery.
- intransitive verb To trick; deceive.
- noun Chicanery.
- noun Games A bridge or whist hand without trumps.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To use chicane; employ shifts, tricks, or artifices.
- To treat with chicane; deceive; cheat; bamboozle.
- noun The art of gaining an advantage by the use of evasive stratagems or petty or unfair tricks and artifices; trickery; sophistry; chicanery.
- noun A game similar to pall-mall, played on foot, in Languedoc and elsewhere, with a long-handled mallet and a ball of hard wood. It is played in an open field, like polo.
- noun A quibble: as, a chicane about words.
- noun In bridge whist, a hand which is void of trumps; it entitles the holder to score simple honors. When the hands of two partners are both void of trumps it is called
double chicane .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.
- noun 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.
- noun (Card playing) In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun road transport A
temporary barrier , orserpentine curve , on a vehicular path, especially one designed to reducespeed . - noun
Chicanery . - verb intransitive To use chicanery,
tricks orsubterfuge . - verb transitive To deceive.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb raise trivial objections
- noun a bridge hand that is void of trumps
- noun the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- noun a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
- verb defeat someone through trickery or deceit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That other honour to our profession, Roker, is well versed in chicane, and knows more of the law, or rather of its abuse, than an honest man would wish to know; but Fisherton is so ignorant that, while his lavish expences continually reduce him to necessities that drive him into bold attempts at robbery, his skill in managing them is so inferior that he is almost always baffled, and has been more than once exposed. '
The Old Manor House 1793
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Surely Kimi was under no obligation to make room for the McLaren (and he didn't), so cutting the chicane was the only sensible option.
FastMachines.com 2009
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Surely Kimi was under no obligation to make room for the McLaren (and he didn't), so cutting the chicane was the only sensible option.
FastMachines.com 2009
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Surely Kimi was under no obligation to make room for the McLaren (and he didn't), so cutting the chicane was the only sensible option.
FastMachines.com 2009
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There are also scores for holding no trumps ( "chicane"), and for winning all the tricks or all but one ( "slam").
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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We come down here in sixth gear into a chicane which is really amazing because it drops away totally and its quite difficult to get it right.
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We come down here in sixth gear into a chicane which is really amazing because it drops away totally and its quite difficult to get it right.
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We come down here in sixth gear into a chicane which is really amazing because it drops away totally and its quite difficult to get it right.
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We come down here in sixth gear into a chicane which is really amazing because it drops away totally and its quite difficult to get it right.
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The temperature differential between the shoulders is more marked at this track as the right-handers are generally fast but the left-handers generally slow, including the chicane which is the slowest corner on the calendar.
knitandpurl commented on the word chicane
"20's Plenty, which King runs without pay, while managing his own small I.T. company, makes the case that restrained, good-natured driving in residential areas—tootling—is best achieved not by the fussy, expensive apparatus of speed bumps, chicanes, and school zones, but, rather, by area-wide speed limits of twenty miles per hour, such as were recently introduced in Portsmouth and several other British cities, thanks in part to King's activities."
"Tootling" by Ian Parker, in The New Yorker, December 6, 2010, p 31
December 12, 2010
qms commented on the word chicane
He's running a brilliant campaign:
He masters the art of chicane;
He believes what you please
And lies with great ease.
Who knows what heights he'll attain?
November 6, 2015