choke-hold

A form of chokehold — A grappling hold around a person's neck, especially one in which the neck is grasped tightly from behind with an arm, cutting off the flow of blood to the brain and restricting breathing.

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Meanings

nounchoke-hold (plural choke-holds)

plural choke-holds

  1. alternativeAlternative form of chokehold.

    “Woman,” Philip interrupted her, “how do you expect them to be able to talk when you have them in a choke-hold?”

    2011, Chike Momah, The Jericho Wall, page 156
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    As Simon's obnoxious protest began to draw local attention, the bouncer slipped up behind him and repeated Mike's earlier choke-hold . . . with escalated force.

    2004, Michael Pinchot, Panamanian Tundra, page 145

    In The World Crisis, his 1927 history of the First World War, he had called the struggle between British sailors and German U-boats 'in scale and in stake the greatest conflict ever decided at sea', and he remembered all too clearly the dreadful choke-hold of the 1917 German submarine blockade.

    2011, Nicholas Rankin, Ian Fleming's Commandos
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APA

choke-hold. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/choke-hold

MLA

“choke-hold.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/choke-hold. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “choke-hold,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/choke-hold.

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