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 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]