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Definition of: chicane
(shi·kān′) v. ·caned, ·can·ing v.t.
1. To overreach by trickery.
2. To quibble about.
—v.i.
3. To resort to quibbles, shifts, or tricks.
—noun
1. Mean, petty trickery, with pretense of fairness.
2. A bridge or whist hand containing no trumps. [<F chicaner]
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