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Shanghai Definition

verb-transitive

To induce or compel (someone) to do something, especially by fraud or force: We were shanghaied into buying worthless securities.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
To kidnap (a man) for compulsory service aboard a ship, especially after drugging him.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb

To put aboard a ship by force often with the help of liquor or a drug.
from Free Scrabble Dictionary
To put by force or threat of force into or as if into a place of detention.
from Free Scrabble Dictionary
To put by trickery into an undesirable position.
from Free Scrabble Dictionary

geographical name

City & port China on the Huangpu near the Chang estuary 12,693,000.
from Free Scrabble Dictionary

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shanghai

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