frog-marchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

frog march (third-person singular simple present frog marches, present participle frog marching, simple past and past participle frog marched)

1. Alternative spelling of frogmarch

名詞

frog march (plural frog marches)

1. Alternative spelling of frogmarch

同意語

• frog's march

参考

• perp walk

Further reading

• Description from The Word Detective

語源

From frog +‎ march. Originated c. 1871, from the resemblance of the target to a splayed-out frog.

動詞

frogmarch (third-person singular simple present frogmarches, present participle frogmarching, simple past and past participle frogmarched) (transitive)

1. (transitive) To march or force a person forward while holding their arms from behind or the side, as a prisoner.

   Synonym: frog-walk

   • 2024 May 29, Ryan Lenora Brown, “South Africans head to polls. After 30 years, has Mandela’s party lost its luster?”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎, archived from the original on 1 August 2024:

     Maybe it happened during the COVID-19 lockdowns, when no one could work and soldiers frog-marched curfew-breakers through the township streets like criminals.

2. (figurative) To force a person forward against their will.
   • 1940, Thomas Firbank, I Bought a Mountain:

     The wind frogmarched me at a run into the house.

3. (dated) To carry a person face-down with one person holding each limb.
4. To forcibly relocate a person, especially in a degrading or humiliating manner.

名詞

frogmarch (plural frogmarches)

1. The process of frogmarching a person.

参照

• “frogmarch”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Frogmarch”, in BBC Learning English‎, BBC, 26 August 2014