Shanghainame/ʃæŋˈhaɪ/

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  A major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China.

  • SHANGHAI (the emporium of Nanking) is the first town of any importance on the coast of Kiangnan province.[…]If, however, these difficulties were surmounted, and suitable precautions taken against existing dangers, the embouchure of this river would be one of the most eligible points for the establishment of British commerce in the whole empire. Be this as it may, however, certain it is that even now Shanghai carries on the greatest native trade of any port on the coast.[…] The city of Shanghai is built on the left bank, some distance from the mouth. It is laid out with sufficient elegance, and numerous temples.
  • In January 1901, we reached Japan where Mrs. Hoover remained for the winter while I went to Shanghai in search of a method of reaching North China. The Port of Taku being frozen and there being then no railway connection between Shanghai and the north, all communication had been suspended for the winter.
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  A major international port including the eastern coast of Shanghai Municipality and the northeastern islands of Zhejiang Province.

shanghaiverb詞源 1/ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/

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  To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly

  • 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.
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  To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest

  • 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.
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  slanggovernmentlaw-enforcementTo force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest

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  slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsTo force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest

  • “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.
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  To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing.

  • Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.

shanghainoun詞源 1/ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/

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  datedA breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.

  • Cochins or Shanghaes.
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  obsoleteA kind of daub.

  • 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.
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  obsoleteA tall dandy.

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  dartsgamesA 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.

  • ‘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.

shanghainoun詞源 2/ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/

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  Synonym of slingshot.

  • Turn, turn thy shang~hay dread aside, Nor touch that little bird
  • ‘Terry Madison. Instead of fiddling with that shanghai, give us a thought.’ ‘It’s a gongai,’ Swiftie said. ‘I mean that’s the name for a shanghai which is another name for a catapult...that Mr Delarue calls a slingshot.’

shanghaiverb詞源 2/ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/

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  To hit with a slingshot.