shanghai
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1.
A kind of daub.
美国 废旧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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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.
游戏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.
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A breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.
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A tall dandy.
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1.
Synonym of slingshot.
澳大利亚 新西兰Turn, turn thy shang~hay dread aside, Nor touch that little bird
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1.
To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
及物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.
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To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
To press-gang sailors, especially (historical) for shipping or fishing work.
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To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
To trick a suspect into entering a jurisdiction in which they can be lawfully arrested.
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To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
To transfer a serviceman against their will.
美国 俚语 及物 政治 军事“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.
及物Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.
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1.
To hit with a slingshot.
澳大利亚 新西兰
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词源
1871, from the important Chinese port Shanghai, as a verb with reference to the former practice by some shippers on the West Coast of the United States of press-ganging crews for fishing or shipping in the Pacific Ocean.
来源：wiktionary