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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.”
To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest
“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.”
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.”
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