verb
- to forcibly move a person forward by holding and pinning their arms from behind
Usage: transitive verb; often implies coercion or arrest
noun
- an act or instance of forcibly moving someone forward by holding their arms from behind
Usage: the physical restraint or removal itself
Examples
- Security guards frogmarched the protester out of the building.
- The police officer frogmarched the suspect to the patrol car.
- He was given a frogmarch by two officers after refusing to leave.
- The unruly fan was frogmarched from the stadium by venue security.
- They frogmarched him down the hallway despite his protests.
- The frogmarch was captured on video and later went viral online.