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  • verb To carry a person face-down with one person holding each limb.
  • verb To forcibly relocate a person, especially in a degrading or humiliating manner.
  • noun The process of frog-marching a person.

Etymologies

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Originated circa 1871, from the resemblance of the target to a splayed-out frog.

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