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With the Napoleonic wars raging across Europe, the British navy had taken to shanghaiing Americans in foreign ports and at sea to fill out its wartime fleets.

From Time • Jun. 18, 2012

I asked Alexander Rekunkov, the deputy procurator-general, "Why didn't you send a summons instead of shanghaiing me?"

From Time Magazine Archive

The army's recent practice of shanghaiing young conscripts off the streets is not likely to generate goodwill -- or good soldiers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cheerful industry of shanghaiing was reduced to a science.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard

And shanghaiing, to use a modern term, was not unknown.

From Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The Faith of Our Fathers by Brydon, G. MacLaren (George MacLaren)