press-gangverb [ T ]
uk/ˈpres.ɡæŋ/us/ˈpres.ɡæŋ/informalto force or strongly persuade someone to do something they do not want to do:
I've been press-ganged into taking the kids swimming.
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Causing somebody to act
- a kick up the arse/backside idiom
- arm-twisting
- bludgeon
- bounce
- bounce sb into sth
- bulldoze
- force sb's hand idiom
- forcible
- hold sb to ransom idiom
- impel
- impose
- push
- railroad
- reduce sb to sth
- screw
- shanghai
- slap sth on/onto (sth/sb)
- squeeze
- squeeze sth out of sb
- trap
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