What does choke-hold mean?
Choke-hold means Alternative form of chokehold..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of chokehold..
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.
“Woman,” Philip interrupted her, “how do you expect them to be able to talk when you have them in a choke-hold?”
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.
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Choke-hold means Alternative form of chokehold..
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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.
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