Shanghai vs Bingo - What's the difference?
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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 .
(uncountable) A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
(countable) A win in such a game.
(countable, Scrabble) A play where all seven letter tiles are played.
(informal)
(informal) (Used to declare) "You've just made my point!" or "My point exactly!"
Just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). (also written Bingo or BINGO)
* 1993 , Red River Valley Fighter Pilots , page 40:
* 2012 , Larry R Gibson, Recollections of a Marine Attack Pilot , page 54:
As a proper noun shanghai
is shanghai.As a noun bingo is
bingo (game ).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
Noun
(en noun)References
bingo
English
(wikipedia bingo)Noun
- There were two bingos in the last game, so the players split the prize money.
Synonyms
* (game of chance) housey-housey, lottoDerived terms
* bingo caller * bingo hall * bingo wings * bullshit bingoInterjection
Synonyms
* (used in bingo to claim a win) house! * (when finding something) aha!, eureka!, got it!, that's it!, yes!Adjective
(-)- Well, the old pucker factor went up about 75 notches at that point cause that length of time would put my wingman below Bingo fuel, plus the thought of sitting in an orbit several miles West of the Yen Bai
- The first pilot to get down to this bingo' fuel state would call, “Banjo 4, ' bingo fuel,” or whatever.