shanghai

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.

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

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

By this time I hadn't much doubt of the nature of the trap and the identity of the trapping vessel. The faint smell of alcohol in the forehold told the story. I had been sandbagged and taken aboard a bootlegging craft, shanghaied in good old-fashioned style; and the vessel was probably now on its way to the Bahamas for a cargo of spirits.

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

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

“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.

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.

A breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.

Cochins or Shanghaes.

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.

A tall dandy.

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 pr

‘Shanghai’ may be played by teams of 8, in pairs, individually, or, in fact, any number.

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.

Synonym of slingshot.

Turn, turn thy shang~hay dread aside, Nor touch that little bird

‘Terry Madison. Instead of fiddling with that shanghai, give us a thought.’ ‘It’s a gongai,’ Swiftie said. ‘I mean that’s the name for a shanghai which is another name for a catapult...that Mr Delarue calls a slingshot.’