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/ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/ · verb
(transitive) 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.
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.
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!'
Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.
Cochins or Shanghaes.
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.
Use shang hai when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shang hai means (transitive) To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly.
Common synonyms include slingshot, impress.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1974 September 30, ‘Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God', Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim.
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