shanghai

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[ˌʃaŋˈhʌɪ], (Verb)

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- force (someone) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhand means
(e.g: they specialized in drugging and robbing sailors, sometimes arranging for them to be shanghaied aboard tramp boats)


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late 19th century: from Shanghai


[ˌʃaŋˈhʌɪ], (Noun)

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- a catapult


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mid 19th century: probably an alteration of Scots dialect shangan ‘a stick cleft at one end’


[ˌʃaŋˈhʌɪ], (Verb)

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- shoot with a catapult
(e.g: in spite of his shanghaiing all the cats, the rodents were still on top)


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Origin:
mid 19th century: probably an alteration of Scots dialect shangan ‘a stick cleft at one end’


[ʃaŋˈhʌɪ], (Noun)

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- a city on the east coast of China, a port on the estuary of the River Yangtze; population 11,283,700 (est. 2006). Opened for trade with the west in 1842, Shanghai contained until the Second World War areas of British, French, and American settlement. It was the site in 1921 of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party


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