shanghai

Meanings

1. To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
2. To press-gang sailors, especially (historical) for shipping or fishing work.
3. To trick a suspect into entering a jurisdiction in which they can be lawfully arrested.
4. To transfer a serviceman against their will.
5. To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing.

1. A breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.
2. A kind of daub.
3. A tall dandy.
4. 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.

1. Synonym of slingshot.

1. To hit with a slingshot.

1. A major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China.
2. A major international port including the eastern coast of Shanghai Municipality and the northeastern islands of Zhejiang Province.

1. Alternative letter-case form of shanghai in its various senses derived from the Chinese city.

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.

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