dare vs shanghai

dare

verb
  • To defy or challenge (someone to do something) 

  • To terrify; to daunt. 

  • To have enough courage (to do something). 

  • To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to 

  • To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. 

noun
  • The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. 

  • A challenge to prove courage. 

  • In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players. 

  • A small fish, the dace 

  • Defiance; challenge. 

shanghai

verb
  • To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly 

  • To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing. 

  • To trick a suspect into entering a jurisdiction in which they can be lawfully arrested. 

  • To press-gang sailors, especially (historical) for shipping or fishing work. 

  • To hit with a slingshot. 

  • To transfer a serviceman against their will. 

noun
  • Synonym of slingshot. 

  • A 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. 

How often have the words dare and shanghai occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )