Shanghai

Quick meaning: Shanghai is a verb meaning (transitive) To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing.
2. (often capitalized, dated) A breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.
3. (US, obsolete) A kind of daub.
4. (US, obsolete) A tall dandy.
5. (Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of slingshot.
6. (Australia, New Zealand) To hit with a slingshot.
7. (darts, often capitalized) 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.

Example Sentences

Cochins or Shanghaes.

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

Their power had a flaw to it. They could be shanghaied in toilets.

1974 September 30, ‘Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God', Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim.

Word Forms

• shanghais
• shanghaiing
• shanghaied
• shanghai'd
• shanghae
• shangeye

Synonyms for shanghai

Depending on context, synonyms include slingshot, impress.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include impress, city, municipality, strait, sea, nanking.

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