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A schemer and her henchmen shanghai two book salesmen for a diamond safari in Africa.

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“We should engage in careful dialogue to decide the best action. Let us not be shanghaied into a rash move for being labeled.”

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A pirate shanghais a teenager who missed the plane to join his girlfriend on an island.

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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.

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“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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