shanghaiing

Meaning of shanghaiing

verb
  1. To force or trick (someone) into joining a ship as part of the crew.
  2. To abduct or coerce.
  3. To trick (a person) into entering a jurisdiction where they can lawfully be arrested.
  4. To commandeer; appropriate; hijack
    Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.

Information about shanghaiing

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of shanghaiing

shang-hai-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • shanghaiing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with shanghaiing

assagaiing, assegaiing, alibiing, obiing, caddiing, hongiing, wongiing, heliskiing, monoskiing, paraskiing, skiing, turfskiing, waterskiing, beliing, overliing, marconiing, piing, charivariing, chivariing, curriing, safariing, hogtiing, untiing, taxiing

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