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What does shanghaied mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of shanghai
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At the end of the afternoon the cameras came out, and a waiter was shanghaied to take the group photo.
The emotional nature of feelings about morality makes it especially vulnerable to being shanghaied by baser instincts.
Anyone publishing it should be shanghaied aboard a hell-ship and flogged through the horse latitudes.
The merchant ship's hold had been emptied, and according to the crew some of their shipmates had been shanghaied by the pirates.
What they don't realize is that the plane is still en route to LA and Walt has merely shanghaied their minds for this astral plane adventure.
Joe, and Ned it turns out, are minutes from being shanghaied into white slavery when Nancy finally gets around to saving them.

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