1. [n]  a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
2. [v]  subjugate by imposing troops
3. [v]  compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone"

1. \Dra*goon"\ (dr[.a]*g[=oo]n"), n. [F. dragon dragon,
   dragoon, fr. L. draco dragon, also, a cohort's standard (with
   a dragon on it). The name was given from the sense standard.
   See {Dragon}.]
   1. ((Mil.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to
      serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted
      soldier; a cavalry man.
   
   2. A variety of pigeon. --Clarke.
   
   {Dragoon bird} (Zo["o]l.), the umbrella bird.
   
   

2. \Dra*goon"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dragooned}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Dragooning}.]
   1. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to
      persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
   
   2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to
      persecute.
   
            The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they
            can be dragooned to nothing.          --Price.
   
            Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying
            to dragoon his subjects to heaven.    --Macaulay.
   
   

A distributed, concurrent, object-oriented ada-based language developed in the esprit dragon project by Colin Atkinson at imperial college in 1989 (Now at University of Houston, Clear Lake). DRAGOON supports object-oriented programming for embeddable systems and is presently implemented as an Ada preprocessor.

["Object-Oriented Reuse, Concurrency and Distribution: An Ada-Based Approach", C. Atkinson, A-W 1991, ISBN 0-2015-6-5277].