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First attested 1854, American English, "to drug a man unknowingly unconscious and ship him unwillingly as a sailor," from the practice of illegal impressment/kidnapping to fill the crews of ships making extended voyages, such as to the Chinese seaport of Shanghai; lit. "by the sea," from Shang "on, above" + hai "sea."
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