Meaning & use
chicane
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A sharp double bend added to a straight road or racetrack, often to slow down vehicles.
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The driver lost control while braking too late for the chicane.
Engineers added a chicane to the residential street to reduce speeding.
A note on using this word
Common in motorsport, where chicanes are deliberately built into racetracks to test drivers' control at lower speeds.
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