headlock

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noun

A wrestling move where the attacker puts their arm tightly round their opponent's head, from which the opponent cannot easily escape.

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Meanings

nounheadlock (plural headlocks)

plural headlocks

  1. A wrestling move where the attacker puts their arm tightly round their opponent's head, from which the opponent cannot easily escape.

    Your love is like a studded leather headlock Your kiss, it could put creases in the rain You're rarer than a can of dandelion and burdock And those other girls are just post-mix lemonade

    2011, Alex Turner, “Suck It And See”, in Suck It And See, performed by Arctic Monkeys
verbheadlock (third-person singular simple present headlocks, present participle headlocking, simple past and past participle headlocked)

present singular third person headlocks · participle present headlocking · participle past headlocked · past headlocked

  1. transitiveTo restrain in a headlock.

Origin

From head + lock.

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Translations

French cravate
  • cravatewrestling move
German Schwitzkasten, Unterarmwürgegriff
  • Schwitzkastenwrestling move
  • Unterarmwürgegriffwrestling move
Irish glas cinn
  • glas cinnwrestling move
Polish trzymanie za szyję
  • trzymanie za szyjęwrestling move
Cite this entry
APA

headlock. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headlock

MLA

“headlock.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headlock. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “headlock,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headlock.

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