| 词汇 | shanghai |
| 词源 | shanghai. The old expression to ship a man to Shanghai is the original version of this term. Sailors first used the words to de- scribe how press gangs got them drunk, drugged them, or blackjacked them and forced them in service aboard a ship in need of a crew. Shanghai, a long way from America, was a lead- ing Chinese shipping port, and many a shanghaied sailor did wind up there. Shanghai became so common in the 19th centu- ry that it was applied to anyone seized or forced to work unwillingly. |
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