force (someone) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhand means
they specialized in drugging and robbing sailors, sometimes arranging for them to be shanghaied aboard tramp boats
shoot with a catapult
in spite of his shanghaiing all the cats, the rodents were still on top
a city on the east coast of China, a port on the estuary of the River Yangtze; population 11,283,700 (est. 2006). Opened for trade with the west in 1842, Shanghai contained until the Second World War areas of British, French, and American settlement. It was the site in 1921 of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party