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Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as crimps. The related term press gang refers specifically to impressment practices in the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.[1] The verb "shanghai" joined the lexicon with "crimping" and "sailor thieves" in the 1850s, possibly because Shanghai was a common destination of the ships with abducted crews.[1][2] The term has since expanded to mean "kidnapped" or "induced to do something by means of fraud or coercion".[3] Crimps flourished in port cities like London and Liverpool in England and in San Francisco,[4] Portland,[5] Astoria,[6] Seattle,[7] Savannah, and Port Townsend[8] in the United States. On the West Coast of the United States, Portland eventually surpassed San Francisco for shanghaiing. On the East Coast of the United States, New York had the most incidents, followed by Boston, Phila

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