Meaning of frogmarch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To march or force a person forward while holding their arms from behind or the side, as a prisoner.
   transitive
2. To force a person forward against their will.
   figuratively, transitive
3. To carry a person face-down with one person holding each limb.
   dated, transitive
4. To forcibly relocate a person, especially in a degrading or humiliating manner.
   transitive

Examples

“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.”

“The wind frogmarched me at a run into the house.”

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