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General dictionaries General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. chokehold: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
  2. chokehold: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. chokehold: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  4. chokehold: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  5. Chokehold, chokehold: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. chokehold: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. chokehold: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. chokehold: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  9. Chokehold (band), Chokehold: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  10. chokehold: Rhymezone [home, info]
  11. chokehold: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  12. chokehold: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  13. chokehold: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  14. chokehold: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chokehold: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chokehold: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (chokehold)

noun:  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")
noun:  complete power over a person or situation ("The president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public")

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