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SHANGHAIED
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
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Classic
11
pts
Big
11
pts
Super Big
20
pts
SHANGHAIED is a valid 10-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 20 in Super Big Boggle.
SHANGHAIED root SHANGHAI-ed
Word family
verb
- transitiveTo force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
- transitiveTo press-gang sailors, especially (historical) for shipping or fishing work.
- USslangtransitiveTo trick a suspect into entering a jurisdiction in which they can be lawfully arrested.
- USslangtransitiveTo transfer a serviceman against their will.
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transitiveTo commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing.
- Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.
- AustraliaTo hit with a slingshot.
noun
- capitalizeddatedoftenA breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.
- USobsoleteA kind of daub.
- USobsoleteA tall dandy.
- capitalizedoftenA kind of dart game in which players are gradually eliminated ("shanghaied"), usually either by failing to reach a certain score in 3 quick throws or during a competition to hit a certain prechosen number and then be the first to hit the prechosen numbers of the other players.
- AustraliaSynonym of slingshot.