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Short section of sharp bends on a motor-racing track
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chicane
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A chicane is an artificial feature creating extra turns in a road. Chicane may also refer to: Chicane (musician) , Nick Bracegirdle, British electronic music artist Mark Winter , a New Zealand cartoonist with the pen name Chicane
WordNet
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n. a bridge hand that is void of trumps a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes place 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) [syn: trickery ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chicane \Chi*cane"\, v. i. [Cf. F. chicaner. See Chicane , n.] To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. --Burke.
Usage examples of chicane.
In America, because of the special conditions which prevailed there, unique in Western history, the word politics came to mean adherence to a group or an idea from a chicane motive.
When office and wealth become the gods of a people, and the most unworthy and unfit most aspire to the former, and fraud becomes the highway to the latter, the land will reek with falsehood and sweat lies and chicane.
Though he had refused to admit the notion that the men could be chicaned, as his agent had implied, he certainly did wonder a little whether a certain measure of security might not in some way be guaranteed, which would still leave him and the farmers a free hand.
Indians, the other two bloated, sour Chicanes, were resting in a shady portal between La Paloma Liquors and the deserted News office.
Miracle Valley project, which I stand to come out of sitting very pretty, unless the whole ball of wax gets blown to smithereens by a bunch of trigger-happy Chicanes or cops or whatever.
These men were all Chicanes, and he was a white man, the person theoretically in charge of this search.
The tree towers just fifty feet from the chicane, halfway up the rise that leads to the downhill S bend.
Suffrage once given, cannot be suppressed or denied, perverted by chicane or bribery without incalculable damage to the whole political body.
Okay, so I live behind a six-foot-high wall in an adobe mansion surrounded by spruce trees, and I got more land than twenty of those poor bastards put together, but I been dealing with them for years, I been selling and buying their land, and right now I'm tied heavily into Ladd Devine's Miracle Valley project, which I stand to come out of sitting very pretty, unless the whole ball of wax gets blown to smithereens by a bunch of trigger-happy Chicanes or cops or whatever.
It may be that this use of lies and chicanes, the inventions of the Devil, is against the teachings of Holy Church and, indeed, would be reprehensible when fighting fellow Christians.
The jungle that crowds close to the track here smoothes into a dark green blur: Britt's speed is rising over a hundred miles per hour and continues to increase as the long, fast curve opens onto a chicaned stretch which most drivers streak through like a straightaway by clipping the apexes from corner to corner.
Britt's car flashes past a small crowd of practice watchers standing on the outer edge of the track here where the chicane stretch abruptly becomes an uphill curve.
Guided by Bob Chicane, Junior progressed from concentrative meditation with seed the mental image of a bowling pin-to meditation without seed.
Sam: Johnson, detector of crime and chicane, and friend to the distrest, bowed over the small white hand.
If Indians like Tom Horse and Chicanes like Jose Zavalla are willing to take the risks they do, so is Horace Hampton.