chokehold   (TTS Sound)

The noun chokehold has 2 senses

• stranglehold, chokehold, throttlehold -- (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")


• chokehold, choke hold -- (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")