chicane
verbEtymology Borrowed from French chicane.
1
To use chicanery, tricks, or subterfuge.
2
To deceive.
chicane
nounalso spelled Chicane/ʃɪˈkeɪn/ · /t͡ʃɪˈkeɪn/
Etymology Borrowed from French chicane.
1
A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.
2
The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.
- 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.
- ‘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.’1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 107:
3
Bridge, Card games, Games The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.
4
Hobbies, Lifestyle, Motor racing, Racing, Sports A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.
- 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.2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport:
- Derived terms
- bus stop chicane, double chicane, mobile chicane, moving chicane
- Related terms
- chicanery