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shang·hai   (shāng-hī', shāng'hī')   
tr.v.   shang·haied, shang·hai·ing, shang·hais

  1. To kidnap (a man) for compulsory service aboard a ship, especially after drugging him.

  2. To induce or compel (someone) to do something, especially by fraud or force: We were shanghaied into buying worthless securities.


[After Shanghai1, from the former custom of kidnapping sailors to man ships going to China.]
shang·hai'er n.
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Flight ANA LA-Shanghai
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shanghaier

noun
a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship 
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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