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shanghai
noun- a sudden and unexpected transfer of a prisoner to another facility as a form of punishment AUSTRALIA, 1977
- He stood in front of Norton. “No reprisals, no shanghais, right?” — Bob Jewson, Stir, p. 85, 1980
- a handheld catapult AUSTRALIA, 1863
Probably from northern British dialect shangie, a variant of shangan, from Scottish Gaelic seangan: “a cleft stick for putting on a dog’s tail”. - Man, she’s as big as a thundercloud and tossing mountains at us like a nasty little boy with pellets in a finger shanghai. — Dominic Healy, A Voyage to Venus, p. 83, 1943
- — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 225, 1969
- The shanghai was a masterpiece of childhood engineering. The Y-shaped frame was made of clothes-hanger wire reinforced with rubber bands. It had a leather launching-pad and the elasticised armoury was made of bicycle inner tubing linked to form a chain. — Kerry Cue, Crooks, Chooks and Bloody Ratbags, p. 114, 1983
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