I. (ˈ)shaŋ|hī, -aiŋ(|)- adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: from Shanghai, city in eastern China
: of or from the city of Shanghai, China : of the kind or style prevalent in Shanghai
II. noun
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized
: a tall long-legged red and black domestic fowl held to have been imported from the Orient
III. transitive verb
( shanghaied ; shanghaied ; shanghaiing ; shanghais )
Etymology: from Shanghai, China; from the formerly widespread use of unscrupulous means to procure sailors for voyages to the Orient
1.
a. : to put aboard a ship by force often with the help of liquor or a drug
was notorious as a hell ship whose sailors were usually shanghaied — American Guide Series: Washington
b. : to put by force or a threat of force into or as if into a place of detention
prisoners of war, shanghaied laborers, forcibly displaced people and other uprooted men — Journal American Medical Association
shanghaied by a white slaver while on her way home from choir practice — Polly Adler
2. : to put by trickery into an undesirable position
no other agent in this patriotic traffic has shanghaied more unwary industrialists — E.J.Kahn
• shanghai·er -hī(ə)r, -īə noun -s
IV. noun
( -s )
Etymology: perhaps alteration (influenced by Shanghai, China) of shangan
Australia : slingshot