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Shanghai – definitions in English dictionary

verb

Force (someone) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhand means.

Usage examples:

They specialized in drugging and robbing sailors, sometimes arranging for them to be shanghaied abo…
noun

A catapult.

Usage examples:

Younger children would play ‘bullrush’, make shanghais and stilts and go bird nesting or exploring.
verb

Shoot with a catapult.

Usage examples:

In spite of his shanghaiing all the cats, the rodents were still on top
proper noun

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.

verb

Take (someone) against his will for compulsory service

verb

To force someone to do something or go somewhere

Usage examples:

The two groups were shanghaied into signing the agreement, despite their objections., the homeless …

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上海

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Sjanghai, Katapult

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Shanghai

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Schanghai

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शंघाई

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Shanghai

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상하이

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Шанхай

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Llevar a la fuerza

Word origin

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

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Shanghai – similar words

shanghais

verb

Force (someone) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhand means.

Usage examples:

They specialized in drugging and robbing sailors, sometimes arranging for them to be shanghaied abo…
noun

A catapult.

Usage examples:

Younger children would play ‘bullrush’, make shanghais and stilts and go bird nesting or exploring.
verb

Shoot with a catapult.

Usage examples:

In spite of his shanghaiing all the cats, the rodents were still on top
Shanghais - all meanings in English

shanghaiing

verb

Force (someone) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhand means.

Usage examples:

They specialized in drugging and robbing sailors, sometimes arranging for them to be shanghaied abo…
verb

Shoot with a catapult.

Usage examples:

In spite of his shanghaiing all the cats, the rodents were still on top
noun

A catapult.

Usage examples:

Younger children would play ‘bullrush’, make shanghais and stilts and go bird nesting or exploring.
Shanghaiing - all meanings in English

shanghaied

verb

Force (someone) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhand means.

Usage examples:

They specialized in drugging and robbing sailors, sometimes arranging for them to be shanghaied abo…
verb

Shoot with a catapult.

Usage examples:

In spite of his shanghaiing all the cats, the rodents were still on top
noun

A catapult.

Usage examples:

Younger children would play ‘bullrush’, make shanghais and stilts and go bird nesting or exploring.
Shanghaied - all meanings in English

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