choke hold

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymschokehold

   Broaderclasp

Questions about choke hold

What does choke hold mean?

choke hold means "a restraining hold; someone loops the arm around the neck of another person in a tight grip, usually from behind".

What is another word for choke hold?

Close synonyms include chokehold. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is choke hold a common word?

choke hold is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.