{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY April 16, 2019--------------shanghai

WORD OF THE DAY April 16, 2019

shanghai    verb | shang-HYE     Definition   1 a : to put aboard a ship by force often with the help of liquor or a drug    b : to put by force or threat of force into or as if into a place of detention   2 : to put by trickery into an undesirable position   Scroll down for more about shanghai      TRENDING NOW: surveillance cavalier redact redacted SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   Just What's So Weird About That 'Flex'?       The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 4/12/19     11 Words for Miserly People       'Meticulous': Fear and Trepidation No Longer Required         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Name That Thing: Animal Edition   How many animals can you identify?     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   In the 1800s, long sea voyages were very difficult and dangerous, so people were understandably hesitant to become sailors. But sea captains and shipping companies needed crews to sail their ships, so they gathered sailors any way they could—even if that meant resorting to kidnapping by physical force or with the help of liquor or drugs. The word shanghai comes from the name of the Chinese city of Shanghai. People started to use the city's name for that unscrupulous way of obtaining sailors because the East was often a destination of ships that had kidnapped men onboard as crew.     Examples of SHANGHAI   Nate was shanghaied by his sister into helping her sell shirts at the lacrosse tournament after her friend bailed out.   "In time, the new novel, lurching around his psyche, dragged itself away and became real. How I loved to see him shanghaied like that, careening down the rum-soaked wharves of imagination…." — Diane Ackerman, Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir, 2011   Test Your Vocabulary   What 6-letter verb can mean "to kidnap" or "to subject to extortion or swindling"?   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORDS AT PLAY     What's an Initialism?   'UNICEF' is an acronym. 'ACLU' is an initialism. Why?   FIND OUT            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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