chicane

1. 1.

   a bridge hand that is void of trumps

   Broaderbridge hand
2. 2.

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

   Broadermovable barrier
3. 3.

   the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

   Synonymstrickerychicaneryguilewileshenanigan

   Broaderdeception

   Narrowerfraudjugglery

1. 1.

   defeat someone through trickery or deceit

   Synonymscheatchouseshaftscrewjockey

   Broaderbeat
2. 2.

   raise trivial objections

   Synonymscavilcarp

   Broaderobject

Other forms of chicane

plural

chicanes·

past tense

chicaned·

present participle

chicaning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chicane

What does chicane mean?

chicane means "a bridge hand that is void of trumps". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chicane?

chicane has 2 syllables: chi-cane. The stress falls on "chi".

What is another word for chicane?

Close synonyms include trickery, chicanery, guile, wile, shenanigan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chicane a common word?

chicane is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.