Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To force (someone) to walk forward by pinning the arms and pushing from behind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb to march a person against his will by any method.
- verb to carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To force a person to walk where he does not wish to go by holding his arms behind him and pushing him forward.
- noun Alternative spelling of
frog march .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb march a person against his will by any method
- verb carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Bless him for his "frogmarch" comment it will be one for the ages, his unwillingness to back down, and his ginormous ballzack.
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Bless him for his "frogmarch" comment it will be one for the ages, his unwillingness to back down, and his ginormous ballzack.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Hassani and his hugely powerful star turn Taher Douis (later to become a record holder for the number of men he could support on his shoulders) leapt to the rescue, with onlookers saying that - like bouncers ejecting an unruly client - they appeared, in unruffled fashion, to "frogmarch" the misbehaving creature to the wings.
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Hassani and his hugely powerful star turn Taher Douis (later to become a record holder for the number of men he could support on his shoulders) leapt to the rescue, with onlookers saying that - like bouncers ejecting an unruly client - they appeared, in unruffled fashion, to "frogmarch" the misbehaving creature to the wings.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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And you can't just say go and find the treatment room, it's up on the third floor of the shopping centre somewhere; sign them up, frogmarch them up there, get their money off them.
TV review: The Apprentice and The Sounds of Hugh Laurie 2011
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One of the most distinctive things about England's relentless frogmarch towards Ashes victory in Australia has been the sense that they have their eyes set on some broader horizon.
Now England have won the Ashes, it's time to focus on being liked | Barney Ronay 2011
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Hopefully if you drag a woman off a train and frogmarch her across country these days the police will intervene.
Watch John Wayne in The Quiet Man: live! Andrew Pulver 2010
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Let's not use our constitutional powers of impeachment, inherent contempt, and power to direct the sergeant at arms to arrest and frogmarch Rove into the chambers of Congress.
Senate Dems To Block Burris' Path To Senate -- Perhaps Even Literally 2009
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Well, except for Useful Idiots, who will frogmarch to whatever they say.
Obama wants to turn his "YouTubing-Facebooking-texting-Twittering grass-roots organization ... into an instrument of government." Ann Althouse 2009
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And a quick frogmarch round an art gallery, then a coffee afterward that had sort of turned into lunch at the Ivy.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
dontcry commented on the word frogmarch
When I look at this word I see a parade of frogs (many are legless, perched on little palettes with casters), marching in protest, up and down the street outside a French restaurant. I can't help it.
May 23, 2008
frogapplause commented on the word frogmarch
¡oh!
August 10, 2008
mollusque commented on the word frogmarch
The frogs go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah . . .
September 9, 2009