japanese stranglehold

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   a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arms are crossed in front of his own neck to exert pressure on his windpipe

   Broaderwrestling hold

Questions about japanese stranglehold

What does japanese stranglehold mean?

japanese stranglehold means "a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arms are crossed in front of his own neck to exert pressure on his windpipe".

Is japanese stranglehold a common word?

japanese stranglehold 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.