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chicane

[shi-kayn, chi-] / ʃɪˈkeɪn, tʃɪ- /


























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Shortly afterwards, a virtual safety car was called when Lance Stroll's Aston Martin broke down at the first chicane and Antonelli's side of the garage decided to risk a stop for fresh tyres.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

The layout of the circuit means that the batteries are used up on the long run from the first corner, La Source, to the Les Combes chicane.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The second sector - of which Pouhon is the highlight - is used for recharging so the battery is full again for the long run from Stavelot to the final chicane.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Could have fought for Q3 but the Nouvelle chicane crash rather ruined the Audi driver's weekend.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

You're a dabster at chicane, or you're preciously belied.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle by Charles Burke

Carole Lombard, a $20,000,000 American in Cuba, is sorry Dancer George Raft was chicaned by a counterfeit lottery ticket bearing the same number as her genuine winning ticket.

From Time Magazine Archive

The very possibility of public agency, by which such petitions could authentically arrive at Parliament, has been evaded and chicaned away.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I had heard enough to tell me I had been chicaned.

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid

Chmielnicki, now doubly hateful to the Poles as being both a royalist and a Cossack, was again maltreated and chicaned, and only escaped from gaol by bribing his gaolers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

He had tried his best to get rid of them, advanced the rent, implored, chicaned, but all in vain.

From The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II by Jules Lermina

The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of fortune were the gate of niggardly economy or the path of little chicaning bargain-making.

From Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists by Asa Don Dickinson

The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of fortune were the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargain-making.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

But the poor girl had no thought of so chicaning away life; her mind was fixed on far other subjects.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson

A Judge that goes upon chicaning is to be punished more severely than a highway Robber.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle

The man who goes to law surrenders his liberty of action and becomes the sport of chicaning lawyers and hair-splitting judges.

From Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance by William Westall




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