chicane
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noun
1.
deception; chicanery.
Origin:
1665–75; < French chicane (noun), chicaner (v.), perhaps < Middle Low German schikken to arrange
1665–75; < French chicane (noun), chicaner (v.), perhaps < Middle Low German schikken to arrange
Related forms
chi·can·er, noun
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chicane (ʃɪˈkeɪn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a bridge or whist hand without trumps |
| 2. | motor racing a short section of sharp narrow bends formed by barriers placed on a motor-racing circuit to provide an additional test of driving skill |
| 3. | a less common word for chicanery |
| —vb | |
| 4. | (tr) to deceive or trick by chicanery |
| 5. | (tr) to quibble about; cavil over |
| 6. | (intr) to use tricks or chicanery |
| [C17: from French chicaner to quibble, of obscure origin] | |
| chi'caner | |
| —n | |
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Chicane
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is bowdlerise. Does it mean:
| to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle. |
| to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable. |
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Word Origin & History
chicane
in various senses, "obstacles on a roadway" (20c.), also a term in bridge, apparently all ult. from verb chicane (c.1672), from Fr. chicaner "to pettifog, quibble" (15c., see chicanery).
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Example sentences
Energy modulation is converted to spatial bunching in chicane magnets.
The entrance to this modified chicane is immediately left of the signs.
Working backward from here, he then addressed the bunch compression in reverse order, first chicane then velocity.
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