half nelson

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   a wrestling hold in which the holder puts an arm under the opponent's arm and exerts pressure on the back of the neck

   Broadernelson

Questions about half nelson

What does half nelson mean?

half nelson means "a wrestling hold in which the holder puts an arm under the opponent's arm and exerts pressure on the back of the neck".

Is half nelson a common word?

half nelson 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.