shanghai

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ʃæŋˈhaɪ/|/ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/    美 /ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/|/ʃæŋˈhaɪ/|/ʃɑŋˈhaɪ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks. capitalized,dated,often
    — Cochins or Shanghaes.
  2. Synonym of slingshot. Australia,New-Zealand
    — Turn, turn thy shang~hay dread aside, Nor touch that little bird
  3. A kind of daub. US,obsolete
    — 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.
  4. A tall dandy. US,obsolete
  5. 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. capitalized,often
    — ‘Shanghai’ may be played by teams of 8, in pairs, individually, or, in fact, any number.
动词 v.
  1. To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly transitive
    — 1974 September 30, ‘Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God', Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim.
  2. To hit with a slingshot. Australia,New-Zealand
  3. To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest; To press-gang sailors, especially (historical) for shipping or fishing work. transitive
    — 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.
  4. To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest; To trick a suspect into entering a jurisdiction in which they can be lawfully arrested. US,slang,transitive
  5. To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest; To transfer a serviceman against their will. US,slang,transitive
    — “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.”
  6. To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing. transitive
    — Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.

词形变化

shanghais present,singular,third-person shanghaiing participle,present shanghaied participle,past shanghaied past shanghai'd participle,past shanghai'd past shanghae alternative shangeye alternative shanghais plural shanghae alternative shangeye alternative shanghais plural shanghae alternative shangeye alternative shanghais present,singular,third-person shanghaiing participle,present shanghaied participle,past shanghaied past shanghae alternative shangeye alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
shanghaier

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Scottish shangan, from Scottish Gaelic seangan, influenced by the Chinese city.
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