chicane

plural chicanes

1. countableuncountableA quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.First known use 17th c.
2. countableuncountableThe use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.First known use 17th c.

   ‘That they may be unlearned in the detestable chicane of politics, is certain; but, they are also uncorrupted by the odious and pernicious maxims of the unfeeling tools of despotism.’

   1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 107

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   1775, Edmund Burke, speech on conciliation with America In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your Colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for.

3. countableuncountablebridgeThe holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.First known use 19th c.
4. countableuncountablehobbiesA sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.First known use 20th c.

   On lap 23, Hamilton got a run on Leclerc into the second chicane after the two had overtaken Nico Hulkenberg's out-of-stop-sequence Renault down the main straight.

   2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport

5. countableuncountableroadA raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.First known use 20th c.

present singular third person chicanes · participle present chicaning · participle past chicaned · past chicaned

1. intransitiveTo use chicanery, tricks, or subterfuge.
2. transitiveTo deceive.

1. not comparableuncommonChicana or Chicano, and of any gender, or of non-binary gender.

   ... Latine and Chicane workers and families, […]

   2023 October 31, Tian An Wong, An Asian American Theology of Liberation, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 68

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   ... Chicane/Latine, and Asian communities. During the course of two centuries, forty-one states institutionalized anti-miscegenation laws. All these states prohibited any intermarriages with Black people, fourteen states banned white-Asian[…]

   2024 October 8, Nishant Upadhyay, Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN

   ... Chicane/Latine Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

   2024 November 19, Sheilla R. Madera, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, The Bad Bunny Enigma: Culture, Resistance, and Uncertainty, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 265

   […] and how many of the ideas upheld by activist groups at the time were antithetical to the normative demands present in Latine, particularly Chicane communities.

   2025 February 17, Trevor Boffone, Cristina Herrera, Atravesados: Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN

   We posit that although there are differences in Chicane experiences in the US and […]

   2025 April 29, Christen Sperry García, Leslie C. Sotomayor II, Art Borderlands in Theory, Practice, and Teaching, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN

   because most students who enroll are Chicane/Latine, there is a general sense that the Chicane/Latine community (including students and faculty) is, in fact, being served. Our sense, however, is […]

   2025 May 12, Lavern G. Byfield, Jean Kaya, Immigration, Identity, and Inclusion in the Lives of Faculty of Color: Stories of Hope and Perseverance in Higher Education, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 72

   Synonyms: Chicanx, Chican@

plural Chicanes

1. uncommonA Chicana or Chicano of any gender, or of non-binary gender.

   […] Chicanes and Latines that continue to reproduce geographies of domination and exclusion. It strikes me that while Chicanes […]

   2022 October 12, José Rivers Alfaro, Something More Splendid Than Two, punctum books, →ISBN, page 26

   Synonyms: Chicanx, Chican@