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Chinese: Mandarin: 強迫/强迫 (zh), 誘騙/诱骗 (zh) (yòupiàn)
Danish: shanghaje
Dutch: sjanghaaien
Finnish: shanghaijata (fi)
German: schanghaien (de)
Hungarian: elrabol (hu)
Irish: shanghai-áil
Italian: arruolare a forza
Spanish: emborrachar (es)
Swedish: sjanghaja (sv)
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Joseph Heller, Catch-22:
There was a urologist for his urine, a lymphologist for his
lymph, an endocrinologist for his endocrines, a psychologist for his
psyche, a dermatologist for his derma; there was a pathologist for his
pathos, a cystologist for his cysts, and a bald and pedantic cetologist
from the zoology department at Harvard who had been shanghaied
ruthlessly into the Medical Corps by a faulty anode in an I.B.M. machine
and spent his sessions with the dying colonel trying to discuss Moby
Dick with him.