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Traditional English :: shanghai
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shanghai.html - v. & n. --v.tr. (shanghais, shanghaied, shanghaiing)
1 force (a person) to be a sailor on a ship by using drugs or other trickery.
2 colloq. put into detention or an awkward situation by trickery.
3 Austral. & NZ shoot with a catapult. --n. (pl. shanghais) Austral. & NZ a catapult. [Shanghai in China] |
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Traditional English :: shanghai
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shanghai.html - v. & n. --v.tr. (shanghais, shanghaied, shanghaiing)
1 force (a person) to be a sailor on a ship by using drugs or other trickery.
2 colloq. put into detention or an awkward situation by trickery.
3 Austral. & NZ shoot with a catapult. --n. (pl. shanghais) Austral. & NZ a catapult. [Shanghai in China] |
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Traditional English :: Shangri-La
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shanghai.html - n.
an imaginary paradise on earth. [the name of a hidden Tibetan valley in J. Hilton's Lost Horizon (1933)] |
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Traditional English :: shan't
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shanghai.html - contr. shall not. |
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Traditional English :: shandy
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shanghai.html - n.
(pl. -ies) a mixture of beer with lemonade or ginger beer. [19th c.: orig. unkn.] |
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Traditional English :: shanghai
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shanghai.html - v. & n. --v.tr. (shanghais, shanghaied, shanghaiing)
1 force (a person) to be a sailor on a ship by using drugs or other trickery.
2 colloq. put into detention or an awkward situation by trickery.
3 Austral. & NZ shoot with a catapult. --n. (pl. shanghais) Austral. & NZ a catapult. [Shanghai in China] |
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