different between shanghai vs dinger

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??æ??ha?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æ?.ha?/, /??æ??ha?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

American English, from Shanghai, with reference to the former practice of forcibly crewing ships heading for the Orient.

Verb

shanghai (third-person singular simple present shanghais, present participle shanghaiing, simple past and past participle shanghaied)

1. (transitive) To force or trick (someone) into joining a ship as part of the crew.

   Synonym: press-gang

   • 1999 June 24, ‘The Resurrection of Tom Waits’, in Rolling Stone, quoted in Innocent When You Dream, Orion (2006), page 256,

     It was the strangest galley: the sounds, the steam, he's screaming at his coworkers. I felt like I'd been shanghaied.

2. (transitive) To abduct or coerce.

   Synonym: press-gang

   • 1974 September 30, ‘Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God',

     Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim.
3. (transitive, US) To trick (a person) into entering a jurisdiction where they can lawfully be arrested.
4. (transitive) To commandeer; appropriate; hijack

5. (transitive, military, slang) To transfer (a person) against their will.
   • 2020, Stephen Crane, ?Ambrose Bierce, The Military MEGAPACK®: 25 Great Tales of War (page 329)

     “Why, if you so loved and cherished the armed guard,” Captain Banning continued, “did you arrange for transfer?”
     “I never, sir! ... But he shanghaied me out of the armed guard pronto.”

Translations

Noun

shanghai (plural shanghais)

1. (US, archaic) A tall dandy.

Etymology 2

From Scottish shangan, from Scottish Gaelic seangan, influenced by the Chinese city.

Noun

shanghai (plural shanghais)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A slingshot.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 206:

     They scrounged around the camp […] and held out their filthy wings to the feeble sun, making themselves an easy target for Charles's shanghai.

Translations

References

English

Etymology

From ding +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??(?)?(?)/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

dinger (plural dingers)

1. A bell or chime.
   • 1997, Sarah Gregory, Public Trust, Signet (1997), ?ISBN, page 47:

     Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.

2. The suspended clapper of a bell.
3. One who rings a bell.
4. (baseball) A home run.

   The starting pitcher gave up three dingers.

   • 1989, John Holway, "Strikeouts: The High Cost of Hitting Home Runs", Baseball Digest, June 1989:

     He should know, he fanned 2597 times — far more than any other man — but made millions hitting 563 dingers.

   • 1997, Hank Davis, Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball, University of Nebraska Press (2003), ?ISBN, page 264:

     Then as you're taking his picture, say something about the thirty dingers he's going to hit this season. You get that little extra smile on his face.

   • 2008, Mike Stone & Art Regner, The Great Book of Detroit Sports Lists, Running Press (2008), ?ISBN, page 209:

     For you youngsters out there, hitting 50 dingers in the pre-steroid craze days of the early 90s was an actual accomplishment; the only questionable substance Fielder was putting in his body were McRib sandwiches.

5. (Canada, US, slang) The penis.
   • 1994, Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, University Press of Colorado (1994), ?ISBN, page 131:

     "He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all."

6. (US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, 1951, Chapter 4, p. 28,^[1]

     Casy said, “See how good the corn come along until the dust got up. Been a dinger of a crop.”

   • 1998, Earl Emerson, Catfish Café, New York: Ballantine, Chapter 1, p. 3,^[2]

     “I won’t lie to you. She been in trouble the last couple years, but she got herself wrapped up in a real dinger this time.”

7. (Australian slang) A condom.
8. (Australian slang) The buttocks, the anus.

   Let?s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.

   • 1955, Norman Bartlett, Island Victory, Angus and Robertson (1955), page 6:

     "We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more."

   • 1979, Derek Maitland, Breaking Out, Allen Lane (1979), page 63:

     And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar?

   • 1988, Peter Pinney, The Barbarians: A Soldier's New Guinea Diary, University of Queensland Press (1988), ?ISBN, page 109:

     "Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger!"

9. (Australian slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
   • 2010, Gordon Briscoe, Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family, Anu E Press (2010), ?ISBN, page 59:

     We made our 'dingers' (as we called them) out of truck tyre inner tubes that were heavy-duty rubber that could shoot a stone a very long distance.

Synonyms

• (penis): see also Thesaurus:penis
• (buttocks, anus): ding
• (condom): franger
• See also Thesaurus:condom

See also

• double
• single
• triple

Anagrams

• Ginder, Reding, dering, engird, girned, grinde, reding, ringed