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Shanghai   /ʃˈæŋhˈaɪ/   Listen
Shanghai

noun
1.
The largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world.
verb
(past & past part. shanghaied; pres. part. shanghaiing)  (Written also shanghae)
1.
Take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship.  Synonym: impress.



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"Shanghai" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mr. William Armstrong, Director of Criminal Intelligence of the Shanghai Municipal Police, authority to wear the Insignia of the Fourth Class of the Order of the Excellent Crop, conferred on him by the President of the Republic of China, in ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 22, 1920 • Various
... after the opening of the River Yangtse—when freights were taels 22 per ton from Hankow to Shanghai, a distance of six hundred miles—I was in command of the "Neimen," an auxiliary ship-rigged vessel, engaged in this trade until near the end of 1863, and saw some of the exciting times of the Taiping Rebellion in that part of ...
— Notes by the Way in A Sailor's Life • Arthur E. Knights
... the Opium Conference held at Shanghai last spring at the invitation of the United States have been laid before the Government. The report shows that China is making remarkable progress and admirable efforts toward the eradication of the opium evil and that ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... three days after the Peace of Shanghai was signed and the great War of 1965-1970 declared at an end by an exhausted world, a young man huddled on a park bench in New York, staring miserably at the gravel beneath his badly worn shoes. He had been trained to fill the pilot's seat in the control ...
— The People of the Crater • Andrew North
... many. Well, if this poor beggar wishes to relieve San Francisco of his presence, he ought to be pitied! Bah! we can throw him on shore at Shanghai, and there needn't be any fuss ...
— Godfrey Morgan - A Californian Mystery • Jules Verne


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