shanghaiing 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. Synonyms for Abducting include kidnapping, kidnaping, seizing, snatching, capturing, carrying off, making off with, hijacking, running off with and shanghaiing
2. Crimp (climbing), a small hold with little surface area Crimp (gambling), a bent corner of a card to facilitate cheating Crimp (joining), a deformity in metal used to make a join Crimp (recruitment) or shanghaiing, to shanghai or conscript men as sailors A style of song in the British comedy series The Mighty Boosh; Crimp (wool), the number of bends per unit