shanghaied in English

verb
1
force (someone) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhanded means.
Otherwise, as Hume remarks in his essay ‘Of the Original Contract’, it is like telling a man who has been shanghaied aboard a ship that he is free to leap into the sea and perish.
verb

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1. Shanghaied?

2. I got shanghaied into organizing the kids' party.

3. To be Shanghaied meant to be drugged, kidnapped and forced become a captive deckhand on an outbound ship.

4. However, political scientist and author Trajce Cvetkovski noted in 2013 that, despite Viacom filing a copyright infringement lawsuit with YouTube in 2007, YouTube Poops such as "The Sky Had a Weegee" by Hurricoaster, which features scenes from the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants (in particular, the episode "Shanghaied") and Weegee (a satiric caricature based on Nintendo's Luigi as he appears in DOS version of Mario Is Missing), remained on YouTube.