Definition of "shanghaied" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of shanghai. (verb)

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• "As the Russian government never said anything about the incident, the United States is still ignorant of the whereabouts of the lost poacher, nor has she ever heard, officially, of the way in which some of her citizens "shanghaied" five subjects of the tsar."
• "In essence, the government "shanghaied" employees of a competitor as reprisal for a business deal gone afoul."
• "Mr. Fenton had gone to the city late in the preceding Fall, under the belief that the missing witness was found; but arrived too late, since Hiram had been "shanghaied" aboard a sailing vessel belonging to the big syndicate, and carried away to unknown seas, perhaps never to return."