Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. To force a person to walk where he does not wish to go by holding his arms behind him and pushing him forward.
- n. alternative spelling of frog march.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. to march a person against his will by any method.
- v. to carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person.
WordNet 3.0
- v. march a person against his will by any method
- v. carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person
Examples
“Bless him for his "frogmarch" comment it will be one for the ages, his unwillingness to back down, and his ginormous ballzack.”
“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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“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.”
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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.”
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“Hopefully if you drag a woman off a train and frogmarch her across country these days the police will intervene.”
“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.”
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“Well, except for Useful Idiots, who will frogmarch to whatever they say.”
“And a quick frogmarch round an art gallery, then a coffee afterward that had sort of turned into lunch at the Ivy.”
“Police said they could not frogmarch him handcuffed in public because it would breach his HUMAN RIGHTS — and there were no prison vans available.”
“He says a lot about Harper's nature that he would use this ability to let cooler heads prevail when he thinks it will result in the coalition falling apart, yet would like it to be unavailable when he wants to frogmarch us into yet another of his far right fantasies.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘frogmarch’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fustilarian, fusillation, fustian, futurology, fusiform, futurition, fusee, fuscous, fusain, furunculoid, futtock, furibund and 418 more...
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Slam Fodder
Those words that will inevitable end up in a Slam Poem
feel free to challenge me!:)bumptious, gamekeeper, slamily, burbuliatorius, cryptomnesia, paradox, pulchritudinous, mimetic, anhedonia, skelf, rampike, furlough and 84 more...
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Animal kings
crocodilian, lagomorph, ovine, bovine, lupine, minatory, arthropod, zoömimetic, nag, pronk, entomology, buffalo and 34 more...
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millette's list
Inventicons and other made up words.
inventicon, confelicity, confelicity, aleatory, psychopomp, milquetoast, zeptosecond, whiffletree, mudskipper, frogmarch, mooreeffoc
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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Noah's Park
Hello, and Welcome™! Come and visit our most diverse land of our Animalesque™ adventures. Here at Noah's Park™ we have Virtually All You'd Ever Want To See™. An experience that is related to ani...
sheep's eyes, doe-eyed, cat-eyed, bug-eyed, cat's paw, black swan, leapfrog, menagerie, cold turkey, card shark, snail's pace, bull's eye and 362 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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random
words I read but don't know
nascent, proxy, desultory, charlatan, churlish, emaciated, gaudy, shill, lurid, frisson, marauding, plunder and 610 more...
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M'ogle
As to feature the creature "mog".
cosmogony, transmogrify, glom, golem, mog, mogul, moggy, smog, demogenic, cormogeny, seismograph, primogenitor and 359 more...
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beastly verbs
someone must already have this list?
squirrel away, worm it out of so..., pony up, fish for compliments, weasel out, badger, outfox, horse around, hound, cow, chicken out, goose and 99 more...
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today's word
copemate, quiddity, ere, maugre, argal, cultivar, exurb, spokesmodel, rollick, logy, cadastral, corpulent and 259 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for frogmarch.
mollusque The frogs go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah . . . Sep 9, 2009
frogapplause ¡oh! Aug 10, 2008
dontcry 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