shanghaied

“We should engage in careful dialogue to decide the best action. Let us not be shanghaied into a rash move for being labeled.”

I consider trying to catch part of the show, but am afraid that if I cross the lot I’ll get shanghaied into some other task.

On the Rena, we were no longer his flesh and blood, but a crew of landlubberly scum shanghaied from the taverns and fleshpots of many exotic ports.

Me and Katherine still wear our finery from the night we were shanghaied, and these things I’m wearing are for looking pretty, not strolling through a frontier town.

“He argues that he is not a free rider on a bus headed for a destination that he wishes to reach but is more like a person shanghaied for an unwanted voyage.”