2006-07-27 08:26:47 · 6 answers · asked by tiffinwalla 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
apparently the practice of recruiting seamen against their will originated in the port of shanghai. that's the myth anyway, and that's where the word comes from.
2006-07-27 08:33:21 · answer #1 · answered by nerdyhermione 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Be Shanghaied Expression
2017-01-09 11:15:00 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sailors were usually pressed into service by either being "kidnapped" off the streets as civillians and pressed into service against their will to serve in the navy or on merchant ships.
Men were often plied with drinks in bars along the waterfront and either passed out from too much liquor or had a drug slipped into their drinks. When they awoke on board a ship that was already miles out to sea they were forced to crew the ship against their will.
hence the term "Shanghaied". From Shanghai, China where a lot of the old clipper ships went for the silk trade.
2006-07-27 08:31:00 · answer #3 · answered by Quasimodo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After Shanghai, from the former custom of kidnapping sailors to man ships going to China.
2006-07-27 08:34:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is what my first wife did to me.
2014-05-10 09:47:34 · answer #5 · answered by Luca 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When people in the ' Orient' a long time ago would kidnap men to work on their boats or in a military setting, or when they would capture women for their own pleasure...during WW 2
2006-07-27 08:29:57 · answer #6 · answered by smurfee68 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋