Shanghai Definition

shăng-hī, shănghī
shanghaied, shanghaiing, shanghais
verb
shanghaied, shanghaiing, shanghais
To kidnap, usually by drugging, for service aboard ship.
Webster's New World
To forcibly or deceitfully induce (another) to do something.
Webster's New World
To force or trick (someone) into joining a ship which is lacking a full crew.
Wiktionary
To abduct or coerce.
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To commandeer; appropriate; hijack.

Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.
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noun
Any of a breed of large, dark-skinned chicken with white feathers and feathered shanks, imported from China in the 19th cent.
Webster's New World

(Australia, New Zealand) A slingshot.

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A type of long-legged chicken believed to be of Asian origin.
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pronoun

A port city in China.

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Origin of Shanghai

  • From Mandarin 上海 (ShànghÇŽi), with reference to the former practice of forcibly crewing ships heading for the Orient.

    From Wiktionary

  • After Shanghai from the former custom of kidnapping sailors to man ships going to China

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Mandarin 上海 (ShànghÇŽi).

    From Wiktionary

Shanghai Sentence Examples

  • The principal China market for shirtings and other staple goods is Shanghai, which holds a large stock and distributes to minor markets.

  • Thus in 1907 at the Centenary Conference in Shanghai, when many topics were discussed centring in the question of the native Chinese Church, a general declaration of faith and purpose was adopted, which, after setting out the things held in common, proceeded, " We frankly recognize that we differ as to methods of administration and of church government; that some among us differ from others as to the administration of baptism; and that there are some differences as to the statement of the doctrine of predestination, or the election of grsce.

  • The opening up of the upper waters of the Yangtsze to steam navigation has made it a commercial entrepot second only to Shanghai.

  • There are five dioceses, and in 1897 an episcopal conference was held in Shanghai.

  • Bullock, " Competitive Examinations in China " (Nineteenth Century, July 1894); and Etienne Zi, Pratique des examens litteraires en Chine (Shanghai, 1894).

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