shanghai
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: darts
games
government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
Etymology: 1871, from the important Chinese port Shanghai, as a verb with reference to the former practice by some shippers on the West Coast of the United States of press-ganging crews for fishing or shipping in the Pacific Ocean.
Inflected forms:
form: shanghais
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shanghaiing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shanghaied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shanghaied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shanghai'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shanghai'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shanghae
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: shangeye
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: shanghais
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shanghae
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shangeye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1974 September 30, ‘Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God',
Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim.
Their power had a flaw to it. They could be shanghaied in toilets.
Woody: 'While I was out, I got me some sushi! Assume the position, fish boy!' / Squid Lips: 'Arr, and who are you calling "fish boy", matey? I've been shanghaied by a darn splinter!'
1999 June 24, ‘The Resurrection of Tom Waits’, in Rolling Stone, quoted in Innocent When You Dream, Orion (2006), page 256,
It was the strangest galley: the sounds, the steam, he's screaming at his coworkers. I felt like I'd been shanghaied.
Petitioner strenuously objects to this free-rider label. He argues that he is not a free rider on a bus headed for a destination that he wishes to reach but is more like a person shanghaied for an unwanted voyage.
gloss: To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: By this time I hadn't much doubt of the nature of the trap and the identity of the trapping vessel. The faint smell of alcohol in the forehold told the story. I had been sandbagged and taken aboard a bootlegging craft, shanghaied in good old-fashioned style; and the vessel was probably now on its way to the Bahamas for a cargo of spirits.
Peter Edwards was bragging all around the little port about his boy, shanghaied off to sea on his first voyage and coming home skipper of a bung-full spouter.
gloss: To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
transitive
gloss: To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
transitive
examples: “Why, if you so loved and cherished the armed guard,” Captain Banning continued, “did you arrange for transfer?”
“I never, sir! ... But he shanghaied me out of the armed guard pronto.”
There was a urologist for his urine, a lymphologist for his lymph, an endocrinologist for his endocrines, a psychologist for his psyche, a dermatologist for his derma; there was a pathologist for his pathos, a cystologist for his cysts, and a bald and pedantic cetologist from the zoology department at Harvard who had been shanghaied ruthlessly into the Medical Corps by a faulty anode in an I.B.M. machine and spent his sessions with the dying colonel trying to discuss Moby Dick with him.
gloss: To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.
gloss: A breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
dated
often
examples: Cochins or Shanghaes.
gloss: A kind of daub.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
examples: The ‘shanghai’ is the glaring daub required by some frame-makers for cheap auctions. They are turned out at so much by the day's labor, or at from $12 to $24 a dozen, by the piece.
gloss: A tall dandy.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
gloss: A kind of dart game in which players are gradually eliminated ("shanghaied"), usually either by failing to reach a certain score in 3 quick throws or during a competition to hit a certain prechosen number and then be the first to hit the prechosen numbers of the other players.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
often
examples: ‘Shanghai’ may be played by teams of 8, in pairs, individually, or, in fact, any number.
The hot twenty—including local favourites George Simmons, Tony Brown, Mick Norris and Lew Walker—have to sweat through nineteen 501s, one 1,001, one 2,001, one round-the-board-on-doubles, one shanghai and one halve-it.
Derived words: shanghaier
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 強迫 /强迫
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 誘騙 /诱骗
roman: yòupiàn
lang: Danish
word: shanghaje
lang: Dutch
word: sjanghaaien
lang: Finnish
word: shanghaijata
lang: French
word: shangaïer
lang: German
word: schanghaien
lang: Hungarian
word: elrabol
lang: Irish
word: shanghai-áil
lang: Italian
word: arruolare a forza
lang: Spanish
word: emborrachar
lang: Swedish
word: sjanghaja