trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
(noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
chicane
(noun) a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
chicane
(noun) a bridge hand that is void of trumps
cavil, carp, chicane
(verb) raise trivial objections
cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey
(verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit
Source: WordNet® 3.1
chicane (countable and uncountable, plural chicanes)
(road transport, motor racing) A temporary barrier, or serpentine curve, on a vehicular path, especially one designed to reduce speed.
(bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honours.
Chicanery.
chicane (third-person singular simple present chicanes, present participle chicaning, simple past and past participle chicaned)
(intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge.
(transitive) To deceive.
Source: Wiktionary
Chi*cane", n. Etym: [F., prob. earlier meaning a dispute, orig. in the game of mall (F. mail), fr. LGr. chaugan club or bat; or possibly ultimated fr. L. ciccus a trible.]
Definition: The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.
Chi*cane", v. i. Etym: [Cf. F. chicaner. See Chicane, n.]
Definition: To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
