Crossword clues for shanghai
shanghai
- Having had a few, belted out audibly at the top of one's voice 'What shall we do with a drunken sailor?'
- Take-away Chinese place?
- Abduct to be a sailor
- Chinese city
- Spirit away
- Chinese metropolis
- China's largest city
- Kidnap in a way
- Unwilling recruitment
- Trick someone into joining a ship's crew unwillingly (in China?)
- Port near the Yangtze River
- Laugh-filled Chinese port?
- Largest city in China
- Large Chinese seaport
- Junk-filled seaport
- Induce to do something using deceit
- Deceive by trickery
- City near the Yangtze River
- City in eastern China
- City at the mouth of the Yangtze
- Major Chinese seaport
- Abduct
- Carry away, in a way
- China's most populous city
- The largest city of China
- Located in the east on the Pacific
- One of the largest ports in the world
- Force into service
- Kidnap, in a way
- Abduct for a particular purpose
- Chinese seaport
- Chinese port
- Eastern port's drop locks failing to close
- Abduct and execute husband during brief boat trip
- Noted steps taken with this in support
- Press Connery to admit to having been a contralto
- Press 5's mouth here?
- Port of 20's leader has a gin ordered
- Port city on the Yangtze estuary
- Informed about hot husband regularly at it somewhere in China
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shanghai \Shang`hai"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shanghaied; p. pr. & vb. n. Shanghaiing.] To intoxicate and ship (a person) as a sailor while in this condition. [Written also shanghae.] [Slang, U.S.]
Shanghai \Shang`hai"\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large and tall breed of domestic fowl.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Chinese seaport, literally "by the sea," from Shang "on, above" + hai "sea." In 19c., a long-legged breed of hens, supposed to have come from there; hence U.S. slang senses relating to long, tall persons or things.
"to drug a man unconscious and ship him as a sailor," 1854, American English, from the practice of kidnapping to fill the crews of ships making extended voyages, such as to the Chinese seaport of Shanghai.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive English) To force or trick (someone) into joining a ship which is lacking a full crew. 2 (context transitive English) To abduct or coerce. 3 (context transitive English) To commandeer; appropriate; hijack Etymology 2
n. (label en AU NZ) A slingshot.
Wikipedia
Shanghai is the most populous city in China and the most populous city proper in the world. It is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China, with a population of more than 24 million . It is a global financial center, and a transport hub with the world's busiest container port. Located in the Yangtze River Delta in East China, Shanghai sits on the south edge of the mouth of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the Chinese coast. The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.
For centuries a major administrative, shipping, and trading town, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to European recognition of its favorable port location and economic potential. The city was one of five forced open to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the First Opium War while the subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking and 1844 Treaty of Whampoa allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement and the French Concession. The city then flourished as a center of commerce between China and other parts of the world (predominantly Western countries), and became the primary financial hub of the Asia-Pacific region in the 1930s. However, with the Communist Party takeover of the mainland in 1949, trade was limited to socialist countries, and the city's global influence declined. In the 1990s, the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping resulted in an intense re-development of the city, aiding the return of finance and foreign investment to the city.
Shanghai is renowned for its Lujiazui skyline, museums and historic buildings, such as the ones along The Bund, the City God Temple and the Yu Garden, It has been described as the "showpiece" of the booming economy of mainland China.
Shanghai may refer to:
"(Why Did I Tell You I Was Going To) Shanghai" is a popular song written by Bob Hilliard (lyricist) and Milton De Lugg (composer).
It was recorded by Doris Day in 1951 and was a big hit for her. Another charting version was recorded by the Billy Williams Quartet.
The recording by Doris Day was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39423, with the flip side "My Life's Desire". It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on June 22, 1951, and lasted 17 weeks on the chart, peaking at #9.
The recording by the Billy Williams Quartet was released by MGM Records as catalog number 10998, with the flip side "The Wondrous Word". It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on August 10, 1951, and lasted 6 weeks on the chart, peaking at #20.
Shanghai is a 1935 film directed by James Flood, produced by Walter Wanger, distributed by Paramount Pictures, and starring Loretta Young and Charles Boyer. The picture's supporting cast features Warner Oland, Alison Skipworth, Charley Grapewin, Olive Tell and Keye Luke, and the running time is 75 minutes.
Shanghai is a 2010 American mystery/ thriller neo-noir film directed by Mikael Håfström, starring John Cusack and Gong Li. The film was released in China on June 17, 2010. The film was released in the United States on October 2, 2015, in a limited release.
Shanghai is a computer game developed by Activision in 1986 for the Amiga, Macintosh and Apple IIGS and also the Master System.
Shanghai is one of the top forty sectors of Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. According to the 2000 United States Census, Shanghai has a population of 11,331 people.
Shanghai is the first single by Dantès Dailiang. The eight songs are the result of a co-operation with Ulys, a music producer who worked for the greatest names of the electro music scene. The single was recorded at Ulys Music, in the Shanghai’s studio. Dailiang wrote the lyrics and composed the melodies and Ulys was in charge of the arrangements and programming and gave the final sound to Shanghai. The single was released in December 2010 and was played for one month on Radio Galaxie, an electro music station in the north of France.
A video of the single was filmed by the French director Franc Péret and allowed Shanghai to be promoted on Chinese television.
Shanghai is a 2012 Indian political thriller film directed by Dibakar Banerjee, starring Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin, Prosenjit Chatterjee, and based on the French novel "Z" by Vassilis Vassilikos. On 6 June 2012, the high court refused stay on the release of the film. It received critical acclaim upon its release on 8 June 2012 with 1200 prints.
Usage examples of "shanghai".
The Revolutionists meantime had moved their base to Shanghai, ironically finding asylum under the extrality of the foreign Concessions.
In 1926 when the two commissions promised by the Washington Conference were meeting in Peking and Shanghai to review tariff autonomy and extrality, China hardly had a government.
All this Passepartout learned from Aouda, who recounted to him what had taken place on the voyage from Hong Kong to Shanghai on the Tankadere, in company with one Mr.
Shanghai Police, legs strapped into a pedomotive, was coming down the street with the tremendous loping strides afforded by such devices, escorted by a couple of power-skating Ashantis.
Shanghai: a step unit done up in Beaux-Arts ironmongery, a rowing machine cleverly fashioned of writhing sea-serpents and hard-bodied nereids, a rack of free weights supported by four callipygious caryatids-not chunky Greeks but modern women, one of each major racial group, each tricep, gluteus, latissimus, sartorius, and rectus abdominus casting its own highlight.
The profession of begging was banned, but prostitution of course throve, and there were many acts of petty brutality, for Shanghai was an occupied city, and soldiers are men at their most beastly.
Wash reached the cover of the Aleut accused by him of aiming directly to finish the Shanghai rooster, and before that startled aborigine could escape, he was disarmed by the black man and dragged across the intervening space to the fort.
America organised the first global antidrug conference in Shanghai in an attempt to persuade other nations to ban the Far Eastern opium trade.
The old neighborhoods of Shanghai, Feedless or with overhead Feeds kludged in on bamboo stilts, seemed frighteningly inert, like an opium addict squatting in the middle of a frenetic downtown street, blowing a reed of sweet smoke out between his teeth, staring into some ancient dream that all the bustling pedestrians had banished to unfrequented parts of their minds.
Shanghai, unlike Pudong, had lived through many wars and was therefore made to be robust: the city was rife with secret power sources, old diesel generators, private Sources and Feeds, water tanks and cisterns.
Shanghai Cock strolled over to help his friend, the Gobbler was fairly sputtering with rage.
Her clothes she will have of nothing but the finest satins with special patterns woven in Soochow and Hangchow and she will have a tailor sent from Shanghai with his retinue of under tailors lest she find her clothes less fashionable than those of the women in foreign parts.
Our links with Shanghai, Hangchow, Chinkiang and Nanjing have all been lost during the last fifteen minutes.
The protest spread overnight to Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow and Canton, with shops closing everywhere as students swept through the streets calling for the boycott.
It began in July 1926 with the three great cities of the Yangtze valley, Hankow, Nanking and Shanghai, as the objective of the first stage.