Usually means: Kidnap, coerce into naval service.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word shanghai:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shanghai, shanghai: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Shanghai, shanghai, shanghai: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Shanghai, Shanghai, shanghai: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shanghai: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Shanghai, shanghai: Wordnik
  6. shanghai: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Shanghai, shanghai: Wiktionary
  8. shanghai: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Shanghai, shanghai: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. shanghai: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Shanghai: Dictionary.com
  12. shanghai: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Shanghai (architecture images), Shanghai (disambiguation), Shanghai (film series), Shanghai (game), Shanghai (novel), Shanghai (video game), Shanghai: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Shanghai: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. shanghai: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Shanghai: Rhymezone
  17. Shanghai: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. shanghai: Free Dictionary
  19. shanghai: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Shanghai: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. Shanghai, shanghai: Vocabulary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shanghai (verb), shanghai: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shanghai: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shanghai: A Word A Day
  2. shanghai: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shanghai, shanghai, shanghai, shanghai: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shanghai: Card Games
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See shanghaied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Shanghai)

verb:  (transitive) To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
verb:  To press-gang sailors, especially (historical) for shipping or fishing work.
verb:  (US law enforcement slang) To trick a suspect into entering a jurisdiction in which they can be lawfully arrested.
verb:  (US military slang) To transfer a serviceman against their will.
verb:  (transitive) To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing.
noun:  (often capitalized, dated) A breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.
noun:  (US, obsolete) A kind of daub.
noun:  (US, obsolete) A tall dandy.
noun:  (darts, often capitalized) A kind of dart game in which players are gradually eliminated ("shanghaied"), usually either by failing to reach a certain score in 3 quick throws or during a competition to hit a certain prechosen number and then be the first to hit the prechosen numbers of the other players.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of slingshot.
verb:  (Australia, New Zealand) To hit with a slingshot.
noun:  A major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China.
noun:  A major international port including the eastern coast of Shanghai Municipality and the northeastern islands of Zhejiang Province.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of shanghai in its various senses derived from the Chinese city.

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