shanghai
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(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.
- 2.
(transitive)To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing.
Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.
- 3.
(Australia, New Zealand)To hit with a slingshot.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(capitalized, dated, often)(often capitalized, dated) A breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.
- 2.
(US, obsolete)A kind of daub.
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.
- 3.
(US, obsolete)A tall dandy.
- 4.
(capitalized, often)(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.
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.
- 5.
(Australia, New Zealand)Synonym of slingshot.
Turn, turn thy shang~hay dread aside, Nor touch that little bird
Đồng nghĩa: slingshot
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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.