Shanghai vs Conscript - What's the difference?
shanghai | conscript |
To force or trick (someone) into joining a ship which is lacking a full crew.
* 1999 June 24, ‘The Resurrection of Tom Waits’, in Rolling Stone'', quoted in ''Innocent When You Dream , Orion (2006), page 256,
To abduct or coerce.
* 1974 September 30, ‘
To commandeer; appropriate; hijack
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 .
As a proper noun shanghai
is shanghai.As a noun conscript is
one who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee.As an adjective conscript is
drafted.As a verb conscript is
to enrol(l) compulsorily; to draft; to induct.shanghai
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , with reference to the former practice of forcibly crewing ships heading for the Orient.Verb
(en verb)- It was the strangest galley: the sounds, the steam, he's screaming at his coworkers. I felt like I'd been shanghaied .
Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God',
- Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim.
- Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.
Synonyms
* press-gangEtymology 2
From Scottish (m), from (etyl) (m), influenced by the Chinese city.Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, by Eric Partridge, 2006,p. 613