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Meaning of chokehold


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  chokehold
      n 1: complete power over a person or situation; "corporations
           have a stranglehold on the media"; "the president applied a
           chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public"
           [syn: {stranglehold}, {chokehold}, {throttlehold}]
      2: a restraining hold; someone loops the arm around the neck of
         another person in a tight grip, usually from behind; "he
         grabbed the woman in a chokehold, demanded her cash and
         jewelry, and then fled" [syn: {chokehold}, {choke hold}]


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