shanghais in English
verb
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force (someone) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhanded means.
Otherwise, as Hume remarks in his essay ‘Of the Original Contract’, it is like telling a man who has been shanghaied aboard a ship that he is free to leap into the sea and perish.
noun
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a city on the eastern coast of China, a port on the estuary of the Yangtze River; population 11,283,700 (est. 2006). Until World War II, Shanghai contained areas of British, French, and American settlement. It was the site in 1921 of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
verb
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1. Synonyms for Ballistas include catapults, trebuchets, arbalests, heavers, hurlers, pitchers, propellers, shanghais, shooters and slings
2. Synonyms for Abducts include kidnaps, seizes, snatches, captures, carries off, makes off with, hijacks, runs off with, shanghais and dognaps