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The word shanghaiing is a verbal noun (gerund) for the practice of using trickery, deception, or violence to conscript men to work as sailors on ships. The verb form is shanghai, named after the port in China that these ships often frequented in the mid nineteenth century. Example sentence:

The practice of shanghaiing was a form of involuntary servitude.

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