Oxford Dictionaries

shanghai
verb (shanghais, shanghaiing, shanghaied)
1 historical Force (someone) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhand means:
they specialized in drugging and robbing sailors, sometimes arranging for them to be shanghaied aboard tramp boats
1.1 informal Coerce or trick (someone) into a place or position or into doing something:
Brady shanghaied her into his Jaguar and roared off

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  1. shinichi Post author

    shanghai

    British Dictionary definitions for shanghai Expand

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shanghai

    verb (transitive) -hais, -haiing, -haied

    1.
    to kidnap (a man or seaman) for enforced service at sea, esp on a merchant ship

    2.
    to force or trick (someone) into doing something, going somewhere, etc

    3.
    (Austral & NZ) to shoot with a catapult

    noun

    4.
    (Austral & NZ) a catapult

    Word Origin

    C19: from the city of Shanghai ; from the forceful methods formerly used to collect crews for voyages to the Orient

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  2. shinichi Post author

    Shanghai:

    麻薬をかけて(酔いつぶして)船に無理やり連れ込む(水夫にするため)

    誘惑(拉致)する。

    〔俗〕だまして(むりやり)いやなことをさせる。

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