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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



... municipalities** (shi, singular and plural); Anhui, Beijing**, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi*, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol*, Ningxia*, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanghai**, Shanxi, Sichuan, Tianjin**, Xinjiang*, Xizang* (Tibet), Yunnan, Zhejiang note: China considers ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... B is a traveller, something of an adventurer too. His wanderlust, or possibly his occupation as a minor government official, journalist, or representative for some commercial firm, has taken him East. He has spent some time in Shanghai or Hong Kong, in Calcutta or Rangoon, in Tokyo or Nagasaki. He has lived chiefly in the foreign quarter and occasionally sallied out to seek adventure in the native habitat. He has secured a smattering of the native tongue, and has even ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors

... recall they met in Shanghai and took a flying trip to Mongolia, where they were married by a Belgian missionary. The court held that the marriage was invalid, as the French statutes require a native of that country marrying abroad to have the ceremony performed either before a French diplomatic ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train

... 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 ...
— The People of the Crater • Andrew North

... that you and the detectives should have noticed the smell of a joss stick in the flat," went on Miss Beale. "Edith— my niece, you know— could not bear the smell of joss sticks. They reminded her of Shanghai, where she lost ...
— Number Seventeen • Louis Tracy


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