frogmarch

present singular third person frogmarches · participle present frogmarching · participle past frogmarched · past frogmarched · alternative frog march · alternative frog-march · alternative frog's march

1. transitiveTo march or force a person forward while holding their arms from behind or the side, as a prisoner.

   Maybe it happened during the COVID-19 lockdowns, when no one could work and soldiers frog-marched curfew-breakers through the township streets like criminals.

   2024 May 29, Ryan Lenora Brown, “South Africans head to polls. After 30 years, has Mandela’s party lost its luster?”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2024

   Synonyms: frog-walk

2. figurativelytransitiveTo force a person forward against their will.

   The wind frogmarched me at a run into the house.

   1940, Thomas Firbank, I Bought a Mountain

3. datedtransitiveTo carry a person face-down with one person holding each limb.
4. transitiveTo forcibly relocate a person, especially in a degrading or humiliating manner.

plural frogmarches · alternative frog march · alternative frog-march · alternative frog's march

1. transitiveThe process of frogmarching a person.