chicane
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Is chicane a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (card games, chiefly bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.countableuncountable
2. (motor racing) A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.Examples: "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."countableuncountable
3. (road transport) A raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks, or subterfuge.intransitive
2. (transitive) To deceive.transitive
adj (English)
1. (uncommon) Chicana or Chicano, and of any gender, or of non-binary gender.Examples: "... 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."Synonyms: Chicanx, Chican@not-comparableuncommon
noun (English)
1. (uncommon) A Chicana or Chicano of any gender, or of non-binary gender.Examples: "[…] Chicanes and Latines that continue to reproduce geographies of domination and exclusion. It strikes me that while Chicanes […]"Synonyms: Chicanx, Chican@uncommon
Definition source: Wiktionary