It can be used in the modern sense, that if you join a Political Party, you must ‘Vote The Party Line’, no matter what your personal beliefs are, as long as you want to be ‘a Good Party Person’.

PRONUNCIATION: pr-krst-n

VARIANT FORMS: also pro·crus·te·an

ADJECTIVE: Producing or designed to produce strict conformity by ruthless or arbitrary means.

ETYMOLOGY: After Procrustes, a mythical Greek giant who stretched or shortened captives to make them fit his beds, from Latin Procrusts, from Greek Prokrousts, from prokrouein, hammer out, to stretch out : pro-, forth; see pro–2 + krouein, to beat.