Chokehold

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chokehold
       n 1: complete power over a person or situation; "corporations
            have a strangelhold on the media"; "the president
            applied a chokehold to labor disputes that
            inconvenienced the public" [syn: {stranglehold}, {throttlehold}]
       2: 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" [syn: {choke hold}]