frog-march • \FROG-march\ • verb. : to seize from behind roughly and forcefully propel forward. Examples: When the patron became loud and belligerent, a hulking bouncer swiftly pinned him in a half nelson and frog-marched him out the door.

Why is it called frog marching?

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 frog-march?

frogmarch. / (ˈfrɒɡˌmɑːtʃ) / noun. 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. any method of making a resisting person move forward against his will.