Chicane

n.	1.	The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; - specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. To shuffle from them by chicane. - Burke. To cut short this chicane, I propound it fairly to your own conscience. - Berkeley.
	2.	(Card playing) In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors.
v. i.	1.	To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.

Noun	1.	chicane - a bridge hand that is void of trumps
	2.	chicane - a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes place before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
	3.	chicane - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) Synonyms: chicanery, wile, shenanigan, trickery, guile
Verb	1.	chicane - defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit Synonyms: chouse, jockey, cheat, shaft, screw
	2.	chicane - raise trivial objections Synonyms: carp, cavil

artifice, bamboozle, befool, cavil, chicanery, dishonesty, double-dealing, feint, flimflam, fool, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, gull, hanky-panky, hoax, hoodwink, maneuver, ploy, ruse, sharp practice, stratagem, surreptitiousness, trick, trickery, underhandedness, victimize, wile