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shanghai
verb as in kidnap
Weak matches
Example Sentences
A schemer and her henchmen shanghai two book salesmen for a diamond safari in Africa.
“We should engage in careful dialogue to decide the best action. Let us not be shanghaied into a rash move for being labeled.”
A pirate shanghais a teenager who missed the plane to join his girlfriend on an island.
Me and Katherine still wear our finery from the night we were shanghaied, and these things I’m wearing are for looking pretty, not strolling through a frontier town.
“He argues that he is not a free rider on a bus headed for a destination that he wishes to reach but is more like a person shanghaied for an unwanted voyage.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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