Shanghai

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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.”

2. fiil To press-gang sailors, especially (historical) for shipping or fishing work.

   “Peter Edwards was bragging all around the little port about his boy, shanghaied off to sea on his first voyage and coming home skipper of a bung-full spouter.”

3. fiil To trick a suspect into entering a jurisdiction in which they can be lawfully arrested.
4. fiil To transfer a serviceman against their will.

   ““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.””

5. fiil 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.”

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

   “Cochins or Shanghaes.”

7. isim 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.”

8. isim A tall dandy.
9. isim 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.

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

10. isim Synonym of slingshot.

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

11. fiil To hit with a slingshot.
12. özel isim A major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China.
13. özel isim A major international port including the eastern coast of Shanghai Municipality and the northeastern islands of Zhejiang Province.
14. isim Alternative letter-case form of shanghai in its various senses derived from the Chinese city.