shanghai

verb6

1. •
   To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest.

   • Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim. — 1974
2. •
   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. — 1930
3. •
   (US, slang) To trick a suspect into entering a jurisdiction in which they can be lawfully arrested.
4. •
   (US, slang) To transfer a serviceman against their will.
5. •
   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. •
   (Australia, New-Zealand) To hit with a slingshot.

noun5

1. •
   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. — 1930
2. •
   (Australia, New-Zealand) Synonym of slingshot.

   • They scrounged around the camp […] and held out their filthy wings to the feeble sun, making themselves an easy target for Charles's shanghai. — 1985
3. •
   (old-fashioned) A breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.

   • Cochins or Shanghaes. — 1853
4. •
   (US, no longer used) 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. — 1880
5. •
   (US, no longer used) A tall dandy.

noun2

1. •
   A major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China.
2. •
   Alternative letter-case form of shanghai in its various senses derived from the Chinese city.