'Shanghai' is a word borrowed from Chinese 'Shanghai'. The word entered the English language some time around 1871.
shanghai [verb] [1871]
- to put aboard a ship by force often with the help of liquor or a drug
- to put by force or threat of force into or as if into a place of detention
- to put by trickery into an undesirable position
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Etymology: China; from the former use of this method to secure sailors for voyages to eastern Asia
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