COMMON If you drag someone kicking and screaming to a place or into a different state, you force them to go there or to change even though they are unwilling to do this. The minister was dragged kicking and screaming to the House yesterday. Stefan was the man who would drag North Yorkshire kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century. Note: Other verbs are sometimes used instead of drag. A reviewer had managed to sneak in to a preview last week but he was spotted by security and hauled out kicking and screaming.