tenuki

Borrowed from Japanese 手抜き (tenuki).

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈnuːki/
• Rhymes: -uːki

tenuki (plural tenuki)

1. (go, shogi) playing elsewhere; ignoring the opponent's last move.

• intermezzo
• zwischenzug

tenuki (third-person singular simple present tenukis, present participle tenukiing, simple past and past participle tenukied)

1. (intransitive) To play elsewhere; to ignore the opponent's last move.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To shift one's attention away from an ongoing task; to change gears.