单词 | stranglehold |
释义 | strangleholdn. 1. In Wrestling: any of various holds applied to the neck, esp. one in which a person wraps an arm tightly around an opponent's neck from behind, and applies pressure; = chokehold n. 1. Also more generally: a choking grip around the neck of another person.The use of such a hold in wrestling, which is now generally disallowed, was originally associated with the American professional wrestler Evan Lewis (1860–1919). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres swengOE turn?c1225 castc1400 trip1412 fall?a1425 foil1553 collar1581 lock1598 faulx1602 fore-hip1602 forward1602 inturn1602 mare1602 hug1617 disembracement1663 buttock1688 throw1698 back-lock1713 cross-buttock1713 flying horse1713 in holds1713 buttocker1823 chip1823 dogfall1823 cross-buttocker1827 hitch1834 bear hug1837 backfall1838 stop1840 armlock1841 side hug1842 click1846 catch-hold1849 back-breaker1867 back-click1867 snap1868 hank1870 nelson1873 headlock1876 chokehold1886 stranglehold1886 hip lock1888 heave1889 strangle1890 pinfall1894 strangler's grip1895 underhold1895 hammer-lock1897 scissor hold1897 body slam1899 scissors hold1899 armbar1901 body scissors1903 scissors grip1904 waist-hold1904 neck hold1905 scissors1909 hipe1914 oshi1940 oshi-dashi1940 oshi-taoshi1940 pindown1948 lift1958 whip1958 Boston crab1961 grapevine1968 powerbomb1990 1886 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 1 Feb. 7/3 Recovering, Lewis got his famous ‘strangle’ hold on his wiry little opponent, and was slowly choking the breath out of his body when the referee compelled him to break his hold. 1939 C. Madge & T. Harrisson Brit. by Mass Observ. (2009) iv. 119 Atherton..is lucky to get Lew's head in an arm lock, he takes him round the ring with it and while his back is to the ref he lowers his arms and it becomes a strangle hold. 1988 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Feb. 1 [She] graphically illustrates how bureaucrats once controlled the clothing industry by grasping her own neck in a stranglehold. 2002 Guardian 27 June ii. 3/1 There are two strangleholds: the arm choke, applied to the front of the neck, which well-conditioned fighters can resist, and the side choke, applied front and back, which kills you in about 20 seconds. 2. figurative. A stifling, constraining, or controlling influence or power exerted over something. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > entangling or confining > that which fetterOE bandc1175 bonda1325 mesh1541 tangling1575 gyve1587 entanglement1644 impesterment1652 trammela1657 stranglehold1899 tanglefoot1908 chokehold1911 1899 North Amer. (Philadelphia) 9 Mar. (Second ed.) 4/4 The impression gains ground that our old friend vox populi has a strangle hold on the versatile Mr. Croker. 1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart p. x This purely inhibitive check on tyranny has become a stranglehold on genuine democracy. 1989 Elle June 94/2 Puritanism's centuries-long stranglehold on the nation's morals was finally broken for good. 2004 F. Lawrence Not on Label iii. 77 The stranglehold the major supermarkets have acquired over the distribution of food in the last two decades. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1886 |
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