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1. A bridge hand that is void of trumps
    
2. A movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
    
3. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
   - trickery, chicanery, guile, wile, shenanigan

1. Defeat someone through trickery or deceit
   - cheat, chouse, shaft [informal], screw [informal], jockey
    
2. Raise trivial objections
   - cavil, carp

Derived forms: chicanes, chicaned, chicaning

Type of: beat, beat out, bridge hand, crush, deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, movable barrier, object, shell, trounce, vanquish

Encyclopedia: Chicane