Shanghaier (Noun)
Meaning
A kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The notorious shanghaier had been evading the authorities for months, preying on unsuspecting sailors in dockside taverns.
- His victims often had no memory of how they ended up on the ship, only that they had been in a bar with a stranger who must have been the shanghaier.
- The police finally caught the shanghaier in a sting operation, posing as a vulnerable target in a waterfront dive.
- The shanghaier's modus operandi was to slip a sedative into his victims' drinks, then bundle them onto a waiting vessel.
- Rumors of the shanghaier's exploits had long been circulating among sailors, who whispered warnings to each other in hushed tones.