Chicane

Definition: Chicane

Chicane

Noun

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

Verb

1. Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit.

2. Raise trivial objections.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "chicane" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Synonyms: Chicane

Cunning

Chicane, chicanery; sharp practice, knavery, jugglery; concealment; guile, doubling, duplicity; (falsehood); foul play.

Deception

Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game.

Reasoning,

Sophistry, paralogy, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion; chicane, chicanery; quiddet, quiddity; mystification; special pleading; speciousness; Adjective: nonsense; word sense, tongue sense.

Crosswords: Chicane

French (cavil, quibble).

Expression using "chicane": single lane working chicane. Additional references.

Albanian

mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), hile (deception, fraud, overreach, ruse, subterfuge, trick, wangle), bëj hile (cheat, overreach, use cunning). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غالط. (various references)

Bulgarian 

шикан (void), залавяне за дреболии, извъртане (dodge, dodgery, equivocation, evasion, indirection, jugglery, legerdemain, quibble, salvo, shuffle, taradiddle, tergiversation, torsion, twist). (various references)

Czech

zlost (anger, grievance, huff, irritation, rage, spleen, wrath). (various references)

French

faire chicaner. (various references)

German

schikane (bullying, chicanery, harassment, persecution). (various references)

Hungarian

csûrés-csavarás. (various references)

Indonesian

mengganggu (annoyance, annoying, disturb, harry, irritate, mob, molest, offend, vex, vexatious). (various references)

Italian

cavillare (carp, cavil, haggle, niggle, quarrel, quibble), raggiare. (various references)

Manx

lhoobeyraght. (various references)

Pig Latin

icanechay.(various references)

Portuguese

chicanar (pettifog), chicana (baffle, baffle plate, baffle-plate, deflecting plate, deflector, deflector plate), tramóia (subterfuge, trick, trickery, underplot), mão sem trunfo, enredo (circumvention, design, embroilment, fable, fairytale, involvement, node, overreach, plot, scenario, snarl, story, tangle, web). (various references)

Russian 

крючкотворство (pettifoggery), махинация (machination, manipulation), придирка (cavil). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

varati (betray, cheat, chouse, deceive, swindle, wile), prevariti (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, cheat, chisel, chouse, circumvent, con, deceive, diddle, double cross, flimflam, fool, get round, gyp, hoodwink, mulct, rook, rope, rope in, screw, set up, skunk, stick, string along, take in, trick, victimize), šikanirati (harass, hound). (various references)

Spanish

criticar (animadvert, belabor, belabour, carp, censure, comment, criticize, fault, indict, judge, knock, nag, pick, pick on, zing), crítica (appreciation, censure, criticism, critique, indictment, notice, reflection, reflexion, review, stricture). (various references)

Swedish

chikan (affront, insult), lura (bamboozle, beat, befool, beguile, cheat, chisel, chouse, clip, cod, con, cozen, deceive, decoy, delude, diddle, do, do down, dope, double cross, double-cross, dupe, entrap, euchre, flay, fool, Fox, gaff, gudgeon, gull, have, hoax, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoodwink, hook, humbug, impose, inveigle, jockey, kid, lure, out-jockey, overreach, rip off, rook, sell, short-change, swindle, trick), bruka spetsfundigheter, begagna knep. (various references)

Thai

ใช้กลลวง. (various references)

Turkish

pistteki engel, kozsuz el, hile yapmak (cheat, clip, cog, finagle, gerrymander, load the dice, manipulate, play a trick, practice a deceit, practise a deceit, renege, rig, rook, sharp, swindle), hile ile elinden almak, hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), dalavere (cheating, deception, do, fiddle, gammon, gerrymander, hankeypankey, hanky panky, intrigue, jobbing, maneuver, manoeuvre, ploy, rigging, rouser, sell, swindle, trick), şike yapmak (throw a race), şike (chicanery, put-up job). (various references)

Ukrainian

сутяжництво (barratry, chicanery, pettifoggery, pettifogging), софістика (chicanery, sophism, sophistic, sophistry), чіплятися (accost, arraign, badger, bully, carp, cavil, clamber, cling, nag, upbraid, worry), крутійство (cavil, chicanery, dodgery, pettifoggery), махінації (jiggery pokery, numbers, practices), займатися крутійством (cavil), присікатися, причіпка (arraignment, caption, cavil, chicanery, nag, nagging, nip), домагатися чогось шляхом сутяжництва. (various references)

Vietnamese 

mánh khoé của thầy kiện (chicanery). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "chicane": chicaned, chicaner, chicaneries, chicaners, chicanery, chicanes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Chicane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bhiwani, Chassagne, Chedanne, Chiaje, Ch'iang, Chicage, Chicana, chicons, Chicoye, Chikan, Chinantec, Chipande, Chisan, Chishona, Ciccone, ciscenje. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chaine, chance.

-2 letters: cache, chain, china, chine, cinch, hance, niche.

-3 letters: ache, acne, cain, cane, ceca, chia, chic, chin, cine, each, haen, inch, nice.

-4 letters: ace, ain, ane, ani, can, chi, hae, hen, hic, hie, hin, ice, ich, nae, nah.

-5 letters: ae, ah, ai, an, eh, en, ha, he, hi, in, na, ne.

+1 letter: anechoic, atechnic, catechin, chancier, chicaned, chicaner, chicanes, mechanic.

+2 letters: cacheting, catechins, chanciest, chicaners, chicanery, cochineal, echinacea, mechanics, mischance, raincheck, technical.

+3 letters: bechancing, cachinnate, cathecting, chanceries, chanciness, cochairmen, cochineals, echinaceas, mechanical, mischances, rainchecks, saccharine, technicals, technician.

+4 letters: archangelic, cachinnated, cachinnates, cacophonies, calisthenic, catechizing, chaffinches, chalcedonic, chameleonic, chanticleer, checkmating, chicaneries, chieftaincy, chiromancer, chrominance, encroaching, hypercapnic, ipecacuanha, mechanicals, mechanician, mechanistic, melancholic, nonchemical, technically, technicians, untechnical.