different between slingshot vs shanghai
slingshot
English
Etymology
sling +? shot
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sl????t/
- Hyphenation: sling?shot
Noun
slingshot (plural slingshots)
- (chiefly US) A Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles.
- (pinball) A stationary, often triangular object that launches any ball that hits its longest side back at a high force, now usually located above the flipper and between it and the inlane, with one each for both lower flippers.
Synonyms
- (stick with elastic band for shooting projectiles): bean shooter, catapult (UK), flip, hand catapult, shanghai (Australia and New Zealand)
Translations
Verb
slingshot (third-person singular simple present slingshots, present participle slingshotting, simple past and past participle slingshotted)
- To move or cause to move in a manner resembling a projectile shot from a slingshot.
- (especially) To use the gravity of a moving planet to add momentum to a spacecraft.
See also
- gravity assist
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shanghai
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)
- (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.
- (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.
- (transitive, US) To trick (a person) into entering a jurisdiction where they can lawfully be arrested.
- (transitive) To commandeer; appropriate; hijack
- (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.”
- “Why, if you so loved and cherished the armed guard,” Captain Banning continued, “did you arrange for transfer?”
- 2020, Stephen Crane, ?Ambrose Bierce, The Military MEGAPACK®: 25 Great Tales of War (page 329)
Translations
Noun
shanghai (plural shanghais)
- (US, archaic) A tall dandy.
Etymology 2
From Scottish shangan, from Scottish Gaelic seangan, influenced by the Chinese city.
Noun
shanghai (plural shanghais)
- (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.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 206:
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