Crossword clues for shanghaied
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.]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: shanghai)
Wikipedia
Shanghaied may refer to:
- Shanghaiing, or forced conscription
- Shanghaied (1915 film), a film starring Charlie Chaplin
- Shanghaied, a 1934 animated short film starring Mickey Mouse
- "Shanghaied", an episode of the animated cartoon series SpongeBob SquarePants
- "Shanghaied", a song by Chinese language R&B singer David Tao from his 2003 album UltraSound
- Shanghaied in Astoria, a musical melodrama
Shanghaied is a 1927 American silent film directed by and starring Ralph Ince.
Usage examples of "shanghaied".
A dozen times he had told himself he should kill Caradee, but the man was a seaman, a first-class, able-bodied seaman, and in the lot of shanghaied crews there were few.
Although normally - mmm - there's nothing to commend in a young officer who manages to get sand bagged and shanghaied, in this case you seem to have acted with unusual intelligence once you woke up.
They had been shanghaied in Frisco in the same lot with Rafe and Rodney.
He was shanghaied in San Francisco-taken aboard a ship while unconscious and forced to work as a seaman.
This, then, could be the reason why Barkow and Shute were so anxious to acquire title to this piece of land, so anxious that they would have a man shanghaied and killed.
They had unquestionably been shanghaied in much the same way she had been.
Astonishingly enough, there was one Catteni, Emassi Zainal, who had been shanghaied onto the prison ship.
These childish conspirators who had shanghaied me had vastly overrated the importance of physical resemblance, since it means nothing if not backed up by art-and need not be at all close if the actor is competent.
I was blurry about some details but I knew how they had shanghaied me.
He stayed out on the Chesapeake during the whole fall season, loading oysters onto the buy-boats, picking up fresh food from them when necessary and watching his shanghaied men every minute to prevent their escape.
They had a lot of hunting to catch up with, because guarding their shanghaied crew had prevented them from enjoying their guns during the prime months of November and December.
I know you feel an understandable resentment at being, ah, shanghaied here"—a blaze of pure rage confronted him, all the stronger for being wordless.
Since that would happen only if he stumbled on the Gate secret, in which case he'd be shanghaied here as an Involuntary Settler and could never go back.
He, Hopalong Cassidy, the best fighting unit of a good fighting outfit, shanghaied and at sea!
They sympathized with the unfortunate pair, realizing how they themselves would feel if shanghaied to break broncos.