choke hold
- a variation of chokehold.
Example Sentences
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Can a series disappear for four years and reclaim its choke hold on the culture?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
The narrow-minded criticisms that informed these changes still have a choke hold on popular culture, and they do far more harm than influencing a mere movie script.
From Salon ● May 29, 2023
American Demetrious Johnson, also making his One Championship debut, won his flyweight bout when he got Japan’s Yuya Wakamatsu in a choke hold at 2 minutes, 40-seconds of the second round.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2019
A big bowl of pasta is hard to enjoy if you know it will render you sluggish the next morning, when a crazy-eyed mixed martial artist is trying to ease you into a choke hold.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
Armpit charged into them, freeing Zigzag from Zero's choke hold.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
