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Shanghai (disambiguation)
Shanghai can mean:
- The City of Shanghai in China
- The act "to shanghai (verb)", which indicates the act of drugging or heavily intoxicating men in order to make them serve as unfree labor aboard sea-faring ships.
- Shanghai solitaire, a Solitaire variant with Mahjong tiles.
- Shanghai woman, an English expression for a prostitute, but with a far more complex and interesting history than most such expressions.
Last updated: 05-07-2005 10:33:42
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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