Stranglehold

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stranglehold
       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: {chokehold}, {throttlehold}]
       2: a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the


          opponent's windpipe

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "stranglehold":
     Oregon boat, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, bear hug, bilbo,
     blockage, blocking, bond, bonds, bridle, camisole, chains, check,
     clogging, closing up, closure, collar, constriction, cramp, cuffs,
     delay, detainment, detention, fetter, fixation, foot-dragging,
     full nelson, gag, gyves, half nelson, halter, hamper, hampering,
     handcuffs, hindering, hindrance, hobbles, holdback, holdup,
     hopples, impediment, inhibition, interference, interruption, irons,
     leading strings, leash, let, lock, manacle, muzzle, negativism,
     nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition,
     pillory, quarter nelson, reins, repression, resistance, restraint,
     restraints, restriction, retardation, retardment, scissors,
     setback, shackle, squeeze, stocks, straightjacket,
     strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stricture, suppression, tether,
     toehold, trammel, trammels, yoke