chicane

Noun

1. a bridge hand that is void of trumps
   • Less specific
     • bridge hand
2. a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
   • Less specific
     • movable barrier
3. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
   • Synonyms
     • trickery
     • chicanery
     • guile
     • wile
     • shenanigan
   • Less specific
     • deception
     • deceit
     • dissembling
     • dissimulation
   • More specific
     • fraud
     • fraudulence
     • dupery
     • hoax
     • humbug
     • put-on
     • jugglery
   • Related
     • crafty
     • cunning
     • dodgy
     • foxy
     • guileful
     • knavish
     • slick
     • sly
     • tricksy
     • tricky
     • wily
     • cheat
     • chouse
     • shaft
     • screw
     • chicane
     • jockey
     • cheat
     • chouse
     • shaft
     • screw
     • chicane
     • jockey
     • flim-flam
     • play a joke on
     • play tricks
     • trick
     • fob
     • fox
     • pull a fast one on
     • play a trick on

Verb

1. defeat someone through trickery or deceit
   • Synonyms
     • cheat
     • chouse
     • shaft
     • screw
     • jockey
   • Less specific
     • beat
     • beat out
     • crush
     • shell
     • trounce
     • vanquish
   • Related
     • trickery
     • chicanery
     • chicane
     • guile
     • wile
     • shenanigan
     • trickery
     • chicanery
     • chicane
     • guile
     • wile
     • shenanigan
     • swindle
     • cheat
     • rig
     • deceiver
     • cheat
     • cheater
     • trickster
     • beguiler
     • slicker
2. raise trivial objections
   • Synonyms
     • cavil
     • carp
   • Less specific
     • object
   • Related
     • carper
     • niggler
     • quibbler
     • caviller
     • caviler
     • pettifogger
     • quibbler
     • caviller
     • caviler
     • pettifogger
     • quibble
     • quiddity
     • cavil

chicane - LookUp

noun

1. Motor racing a sharp double bend created to form an obstacle on a motor-racing track or a road the Austrian's car flew out of control and spun across the chicane

2. Cards dated (in card games) a hand without cards of one particular suit; a void

3. Crime archaic the use of deception; chicanery

verb

1. Crime archaic employ chicanery he spends more time chicaning on texts than invoking principles

deceive (someone) giving their login information

Origin

mid 17th century (in the sense chicanery ): from French chicane (noun), chicaner (verb) quibble , of unknown origin

Urban Dictionary

a car that drives so slow in a race that it just slows the other cars as they have to pass by it and doesn't really compete. In a race, it usually ends several laps behind the winner. See Minardi.

The Minardi cars ended the race 4 laps behind Fernado Alonso.

Multiplayer race winner: That n00b was 5 laps behind me! Other driver: Yeah, he was just a mobile chicane. Slowing us down!