chicane
/ʃɪˈkeɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.38 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "1775, Edmund Burke, speech on conciliation with America In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your Colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for."
- "‘That they may be unlearned in the detestable chicane of politics, is certain; but, they are also uncorrupted by the odious and pernicious maxims of the unfeeling tools of despotism.’"
- "On lap 23, Hamilton got a run on Leclerc into the second chicane after the two had overtaken Nico Hulkenberg's out-of-stop-sequence Renault down the main straight."
- "... Latine and Chicane workers and families, […]"
- "... Chicane/Latine, and Asian communities. During the course of two centuries, forty-one states institutionalized anti-miscegenation laws. All these states prohibited any intermarriages with Black people, fourteen states banned white-Asian[…]"
- "... Chicane/Latine Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison."
Etymology
Borrowed from French chicane.