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frogmarch en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

Forms

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frog march alternative lexicographic
frogmarches Number=Plur lexicographic
frog's march alternative lexicographic
frog-march alternative lexicographic

frogmarch en · VERB

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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. 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:
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To 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. (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.

Forms

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frog's march alternative lexicographic
frog-march alternative lexicographic
frogmarches Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
frogmarching Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
frog march alternative lexicographic
frogmarched Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
frogmarched Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

frog-walk

Translations (4)

de vorwärtsstoßen (to force a person forward against their will) · de wegzerren (to forcibly relocate a person) · de im Polizeigriff abführen (to force a person forward while holding their arms from behind or the side) · de wegschleppen (to forcibly relocate a person)