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frogmarch

frogmarch \frogmarch\ v.

  1. to march a person against his will by any method.

  2. to carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person.

Wiktionary
frogmarch

n. (alternative spelling of frog march English) vb. To force a person to walk where he does not wish to go by holding his arms behind him and pushing him forward.

WordNet
frogmarch
  1. v. march a person against his will by any method

  2. carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person

Usage examples of "frogmarch".

Staley, tell the Marines to put Buckman in his cabin even if they have to frogmarch him there.

Do I mention predestination to excuse my failure, or did inexorable fate really grab me like a marionette and frogmarch me through the stations of some cosmic ritual?

I smiled back at the hostile glares from the plane's passengers as they frogmarched me off the plane, two in front, two behind, through the docking gantry into the crowded arrivals area, then down into the bowels of the airport.

Before he could get to his feet again, Dagref and a couple of other men who'd run after him jumped on him and frogmarched him back to Gerin and Aragis.

Hermione, who had hastily packed her things, grabbed Harry by the arm and frogmarched him away.

He managed to make it look like a gesture of support for an elderly gentleman—only a few years older than he himself was, but in attitude the gap was decades wide—but in truth it was the nearest he could get to frogmarching the pope.

Keru and Pazlar had already flanked him and were supporting him, effectively frogmarching him down the corridor toward a turbolift.

He yelled out in pain as Grace Poole wrestled Mrs Rochester into a half nelson and frogmarched her to the attic.

Burke frogmarched him back to the gazebo and gave him into the charge of an armed guard, with orders that Tony was to stay with the skeleton staff of gazebo technicians who had agreed to stand by in case the apparatus broke down again.