Chicane

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To resort to tricks or subterfuges; use chicanery.
  • v. To trick; deceive.
  • n. Chicanery.
  • n. Games A bridge or whist hand without trumps.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A temporary barrier, or serpentine curve, on a vehicular path, especially one designed to reduce speed.
  • n. Chicanery.
  • v. To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge.
  • v. To deceive.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • n. In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors.
  • verb-intransitive. To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The art of gaining an advantage by the use of evasive stratagems or petty or unfair tricks and artifices; trickery; sophistry; chicanery.
  • n. 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.
  • To use chicane; employ shifts, tricks, or artifices.
  • To treat with chicane; deceive; cheat; bamboozle.
  • n. A quibble: as, a chicane about words.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. raise trivial objections
  • n. a bridge hand that is void of trumps
  • n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
  • n. a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
  • v. defeat someone through trickery or deceit
  • Verb Form
    chicaned    chicanes    chicaning   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    object    bridge hand    movable barrier    vanquish    shell    beat    beat out    trounce    crush   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    trickery    chicanery    caviling    sophistry    pettifog   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts