1. artificial barriers or tight turns on a road or racetrack designed to slow traffic
2. the use of trickery or deception to achieve a goal
Usage: formal

1. to use trickery or unfair tactics against someone

Examples

• The race course featured several chicanes to test the drivers’ skills.
• Traffic engineers installed chicanes on the residential street to reduce speeding.
• The Formula One track’s chicanes made overtaking extremely difficult.
• His legal chicanes delayed the court proceedings for months.
• She refused to engage in political chicanes to win the election.
• The company chicaned its competitors through misleading advertising.
• The narrow chicanes forced motorcycles to slow down significantly.