Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to shanghai
Participle: shanghaied
Gerund: shanghaiing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | shanghai |
| you | shanghai |
| he;she;it | shanghais |
| we | shanghai |
| you | shanghai |
| they | shanghai |
Perfect
| I | have shanghaied |
| you | have shanghaied |
| he;she;it | has shanghaied |
| we | have shanghaied |
| you | have shanghaied |
| they | have shanghaied |
Past
| I | shanghaied |
| you | shanghaied |
| he;she;it | shanghaied |
| we | shanghaied |
| you | shanghaied |
| they | shanghaied |
Pluperfect
| I | had shanghaied |
| you | had shanghaied |
| he;she;it | had shanghaied |
| we | had shanghaied |
| you | had shanghaied |
| they | had shanghaied |
Future
| I | will shanghai |
| you | will shanghai |
| he;she;it | will shanghai |
| we | will shanghai |
| you | will shanghai |
| they | will shanghai |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shanghaied |
| you | will have shanghaied |
| he;she;it | will have shanghaied |
| we | will have shanghaied |
| you | will have shanghaied |
| they | will have shanghaied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | shanghai |
| you | shanghai |
| he;she;it | shanghai |
| we | shanghai |
| you | shanghai |
| they | shanghai |
Perfect
| I | have shanghaied |
| you | have shanghaied |
| he;she;it | have shanghaied |
| we | have shanghaied |
| you | have shanghaied |
| they | have shanghaied |
Imperfect
| I | shanghaied |
| you | shanghaied |
| he;she;it | shanghaied |
| we | shanghaied |
| you | shanghaied |
| they | shanghaied |
Pluperfect
| I | had shanghaied |
| you | had shanghaied |
| he;she;it | had shanghaied |
| we | had shanghaied |
| you | had shanghaied |
| they | had shanghaied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would shanghai |
| you | would shanghai |
| he;she;it | would shanghai |
| we | would shanghai |
| you | would shanghai |
| they | would shanghai |
Perfect
| I | would have shanghaied |
| you | would have shanghaied |
| he;she;it | would have shanghaied |
| we | would have shanghaied |
| you | would have shanghaied |
| they | would have shanghaied |
Imperative
| you | shanghai |
| we | Let's shanghai |
| you | shanghai |
Verbs conjugated like 'shanghai'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'shanghai'
hangar,
spanghew,
assagai,
bangtail,
cha-cha,
change,
gangway,
hanch,
handbag,
hang,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
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.
Verbs referencing "shanghai"
Finnish with old forms
shanghaijata.
Sample Sentences
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1974 September 30, ‘Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God',
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Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim.
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Their power had a flaw to it. They could be shanghaied in toilets. [1985, Margaret Atwood, “Birth Day”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 143:]
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Woody: 'While I was out, I got me some sushi! Assume the position, fish boy!' / Squid Lips: 'Arr, and who are you calling "fish boy", matey? I've been shanghaied by a darn splinter!' [1995, Sega Multimedia Studio, Wild Woody, Sega:]
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1999 June 24, ‘The Resurrection of Tom Waits’, in Rolling Stone, quoted in Innocent When You Dream, Orion (2006), page 256,
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It was the strangest galley: the sounds, the steam, he's screaming at his coworkers. I felt like I'd been shanghaied.
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Petitioner strenuously objects to this free-rider label. He argues that he is not a free rider on a bus headed for a destination that he wishes to reach but is more like a person shanghaied for an unwanted voyage. [2018 Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448]
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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. [1923, Francis Lynde, chapter 2, in Somewhere in the Caribbean:]
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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, Captain Dingle, “In Conclusion” (chapter 34), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 270:]
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“Why, if you so loved and cherished the armed guard,” Captain Banning continued, “did you arrange for transfer?”
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“I never, sir! ... But he shanghaied me out of the armed guard pronto.” [Eugene Cunningham, "A One-Man Navy"]
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There was a urologist for his urine, a lymphologist for his lymph, an endocrinologist for his endocrines, a psychologist for his psyche, a dermatologist for his derma; there was a pathologist for his pathos, a cystologist for his cysts, and a bald and pedantic cetologist from the zoology department at Harvard who had been shanghaied ruthlessly into the Medical Corps by a faulty anode in an I.B.M. machine and spent his sessions with the dying colonel trying to discuss Moby Dick with him. [Joseph Heller, Catch-22]
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Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.