shanghai

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1. shanghai

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1. Shanghai

1. To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against one's will|against their will or interest, ''particularly''

2. 1974 September 30, ‘Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God',

Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim.

3. (RQ:Atwood Handmaid)

4. 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.

5. 2018 (w), 138 S. Ct. 2448

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.

6. To press-gang sailors, ''especially'' for shipping or fishing work.

7. (quote-book)|title=Somewhere in the Caribbean|author=Francis Lynde|passage=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.

8. To trick a suspect into entering a jurisdiction in which they can be lawfully arrested.

9. To transfer a serviceman against one's will|against their will.

10. Eugene Cunningham, "A One-Man Navy":

“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.”

11. Joseph Heller, ''Catch-22'':

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.

12. To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing.

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

14. {{quote-text|en|year=1853|author=W.B. Tegetmeier|title=Profitable Poultry|page=19

15. A kind of daub.

16. 1880 Jan., ''Scribner's Monthly'', p. 365:

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.

17. A tall dandy.

18. 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.

19. {{quote-text|en|year=1930|title=Anchor Magazine|page=196

20. 1977 May 10, ''Daily Mirror'', p. 30:

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.

21. (synonym of).

22. 1863 Oct. 24, ''Leader'', p. 17:

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

23. {{quote-book|en|year=1985|author=Peter Carey|title=Illywhacker|publisher=Faber and Faber|year_published=2003|page=206

24. (quote-journal)

25. To hit with a slingshot.