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n. - The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them); A movable barrier used in motor racing; A bridge hand that is void of trumps v. - Raise trivial objections; Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit.

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  • Surely Kimi was under no obligation to make room for the McLaren (and he didn't), so cutting the chicane was the only sensible option.
  • There are also scores for holding no trumps ( "chicane"), and for winning all the tricks or all but one ( "slam").
  • They pass through a chicane, he looks glumly down.
  • Today there is a chicane — or kink — in the straight.
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