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Chicane

noun

A bridge hand that is void of trumps.

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

The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them). Synonyms: chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile.

verb

Defeat someone through trickery or deceit. Synonyms: cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft.

Raise trivial objections. Synonyms: carp, cavil.

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"Chicane" Quotes from Famous Books

... lost her Chivalric spirit nearly a hundred years before. It had died with Francis I. The wars of the League were wars of Chicane; Artifice in arms, Subtlety in steel coats. The profligacy of the courts of Louis Quatorze, and his successors, dissolved at once the morals and the mind of France. That great country exhibited, to the eye of Europe, the aspect of the most extravagant license, and the most rapid decay. There lay ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various

... of all the chief towns returned to their towns or to the vicinity thereof in the uniform and with the pleasing manners of German warriors. The organisation for doing good to Belgium against Belgium's will was an incomparable piece of chicane and pure rascality. Strange—Belgians were long ago convinced that the visitation was inevitably coming, and had fallen into the habit of discussing it placidly over ...

— Over There • Arnold Bennett

... to be thought of. He despised the little agent of chicane too much. One could not go and lay one's conscience before the policeman at the corner. Neither was Razumov anxious to go to the chief of his district's police—a common-looking person whom he used to see sometimes in the street in a shabby ...

— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad

... majority of the people; it incorporates in it a clause establishing slavery in perpetuity; it connects with it a Schedule perpetuating the existing slavery, whatever it may be, against all future remedy which has not the sanction of the slave-master; and then, by a miserable chicane, it submits the Constitution to a vote of the people, but it submits it under such terms, that the people, if they vote at all, must vote for it, whether they like it or not, while the only part in which they can exercise any choice is the clause which relates to future slavery. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various

... government before their faces; it was against entrenched union labor, which had risen on the backs of the unskilled and unintelligent and on the backs of those whom for any reason of race or prejudice or chicane they could beat beyond the bars of competition; and finally the anger of the mass of white workers was turned toward these new black interlopers, who seemed to come to spoil their last dream of a ...

— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois

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