Definitions for chicanes

chicanes chi·cane

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

Chicanes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 245 anagrams from letters in chicanes (accehins).

Definitions for chicanes

noun

  1. deception; chicanery.

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of chicanes

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

Examples for chicanes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for chicanes
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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