frog march
verb and noun

- to seize from behind roughly and forcefully propel forward

(Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary)

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There are a couple variations of the "frog march" used to carry off a person who is acting unruly. The first involves carrying the person face downward by the arms and legs. When this is done by four people each holding a limb, the person's body resembles a stretched out frog. If this description is not sufficient, think about what a frog looks like when it is laid out on a dissection table in biology class.

In another version the person is carried off by his collar and the seat of his pants with the arms and legs flying about in a useless manner, much like what John Wayne did in countless westerns when he carried the bad guys through the saloon door.

These methods of forcibly moving a person along gave us the verb "frog-march" in the late 19th century. The verb was also extended to cover more general, less frog-like, methods of removal, such as forcing the difficult individual forward with arms held in the back or at the sides.

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the expression originated among London police in the 1870s. By the 1930s, the verb was used in reference to the much more efficient (but less frog-like) method of getting someone in an arm-behind-the-back hold and hurrying them along, which one can see on television these days when police and protesters clash.

(sources: Merriam Webster Dictionary, Online Etymology Dictionary)

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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation

"During Oktoberfest it's not unusual to see drunken people being frog marched by the police."