Definitions for chicane

chicane chi·cane

Spelling: [shi-keyn, chi-]
IPA: /ʃɪˈkeɪn, tʃɪ-/

Chicane is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in chicane (accehin).

Definitions for chicane

noun

  1. deception; chicanery.

verb (used with object)

  1. to trick by chicanery.
  2. to quibble over; cavil at.

Origin of chicane

1665-75; French chicane (noun), chicaner (v.), perhaps Middle Low German schikken to arrange

Examples for chicane

Roebuck was the keystone of the arch that sustained the structure of chicane.

I never darkened it with absurd and contradictory notions, nor confounded it with chicane and sophistry.

Laws are made to be kept, else we live in a house of chicane.

You want a field for your remarkable talent for conspiracy and chicane.

There had never been any chicane like the chicane she was presently going to commit.

Should both sides revoke, the only score permitted shall be for honors in trumps or chicane.

Under these conditions, can either side score "except for honors or chicane?"

The value of honors, slam, little slam or chicane, is not affected by doubling or redoubling.

He had vowed war in his youth against the 'demon of chicane.'

Then, he says, the 'Demon of chicane appeared to me in all his hideousness.

Word Value for chicane
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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