frogmarch

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
22
Letters
9

Definition of frogmarch

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To 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.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To 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.”
  2. (figuratively, transitive)To force a person forward against their will.
    “The wind frogmarched me at a run into the house.”
  3. (dated, transitive)To carry a person face-down with one person holding each limb.
  4. (transitive)To forcibly relocate a person, especially in a degrading or humiliating manner.

noun

  1. (transitive)The process of frogmarching a person.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From frog + march. Originated c. 1871, from the resemblance of the target to a splayed-out frog.

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