What is the meaning of Frogmarch?

frog-march • \FROG-march\ • verb. : to seize from behind roughly and forcefully propel forward.

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Where does the expression Frogmarch come from?

frog-march (n.) also frog’s march, 1871, a term that originated among London police and referred to their method of moving “a drunken or refractory prisoner” by carrying him face-down between four people, each holding a limb; the connection with frog (n. 1) perhaps being the notion of going along belly-down.

What is the synonym of a variation?

1 mutation, alteration, modification; deviation, divergence, difference.

What does it mean to frog walk someone?

transitive verb. If you are frog-marched somewhere, someone takes you there by force, holding you by the arms or another part of your body so that you have to walk along with them.

What is another word for variables?

variable

fickle.
fluctuating.
volatile.
fluid.
irregular.
mobile.
shifting.
wavering.

1. a method of carrying a resisting person in which each limb is held by one person and the victim is carried horizontally and face downwards. 2. any method of making a resisting person move forward against his will. vb. (tr) to carry in a frogmarch or cause to move forward unwillingly.

What does frog March mean?

To force (someone) to walk forward by pinning the arms and pushing from behind. [From earlier frog’s march, a police method of carrying a drunken or unruly person, who is suspended face downwards above the ground by four police officers each holding one limb and carried in a splayed position resembling a frog.]

What does it mean to frog someone?

Also found in: Thesaurus, Wikipedia. To force (someone) to walk forward by pinning the arms and pushing from behind. [From earlier frog’s march, a police method of carrying a drunken or unruly person, who is suspended face downwards above the ground by four police officers each holding one limb and carried in a splayed position resembling a frog .]

What is the meaning of Frawg?

[frog-mahrch, frawg-] verb (used with object) to force (a person) to march with the arms pinioned firmly behind the back.