Complex sentence: The verb "to shanghai" joined the lexicon with "crimping" and "sailor thieves" in the 1850s as Shanghai was a common destination of the ships with abducted crews.
Split into simpler sentences: The verb "to shanghai" joined the lexicon with "crimping" and "sailor thieves" in the 1850s. A theory of the word's origin is that it comes from the Chinese city of Shanghai, a common destination of the ships with abducted crews.