press-gang
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpress-gangˈpress-gang1 verb [transitive] 1 → press-gang somebody into doing something2 to force men to work on a ship, by taking them from the streets – done in the past→ See Verb tablepress-gangpress-gang2 noun [countable] a group of people in the past who took young men away using force in order to make them come to work on a ship