"headlock" meaning in All languages combined

See headlock on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: En-us-headlock.ogg Forms: headlocks [plural]
Etymology: From head + lock. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|head|lock}} head + lock Head templates: {{en-noun}} headlock (plural headlocks)
  1. A wrestling move where the attacker puts their arm tightly round their opponent's head, which the opponent can't easily escape from. Translations (wrestling move): cravate [feminine] (French), Schwitzkasten [masculine] (German), Unterarmwürgegriff [masculine] (German), glas cinn [masculine] (Irish)
    Sense id: en-headlock-en-noun-8Zvmdt6s Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Wrestling Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 21 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 60 40 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 77 23 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Wrestling: 88 12

Verb [English]

Audio: En-us-headlock.ogg Forms: headlocks [present, singular, third-person], headlocking [participle, present], headlocked [participle, past], headlocked [past]
Etymology: From head + lock. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|head|lock}} head + lock Head templates: {{en-verb}} headlock (third-person singular simple present headlocks, present participle headlocking, simple past and past participle headlocked)
  1. (transitive) To restrain in a headlock. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-headlock-en-verb-fh8t5dvI

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "head",
        "3": "lock"
      },
      "expansion": "head + lock",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From head + lock.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "headlocks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "headlock (plural headlocks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 40",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "67 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Irish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Wrestling",
          "orig": "en:Wrestling",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              36,
              44
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2011, Alex Turner, “Suck It And See”, in Suck It And See, performed by Arctic Monkeys:",
          "text": "Your love is like a studded leather headlock\nYour kiss, it could put creases in the rain\nYou're rarer than a can of dandelion and burdock\nAnd those other girls are just post-mix lemonade",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wrestling move where the attacker puts their arm tightly round their opponent's head, which the opponent can't easily escape from."
      ],
      "id": "en-headlock-en-noun-8Zvmdt6s",
      "links": [
        [
          "wrestling",
          "wrestling"
        ],
        [
          "attacker",
          "attacker"
        ],
        [
          "opponent",
          "opponent"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "wrestling move",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cravate"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "wrestling move",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Schwitzkasten"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "wrestling move",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Unterarmwürgegriff"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "wrestling move",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "glas cinn"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-us-headlock.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b0/En-us-headlock.ogg/En-us-headlock.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/En-us-headlock.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "headlock"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "head",
        "3": "lock"
      },
      "expansion": "head + lock",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From head + lock.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "headlocks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "headlocking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "headlocked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "headlocked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "headlock (third-person singular simple present headlocks, present participle headlocking, simple past and past participle headlocked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To restrain in a headlock."
      ],
      "id": "en-headlock-en-verb-fh8t5dvI",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To restrain in a headlock."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-us-headlock.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b0/En-us-headlock.ogg/En-us-headlock.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/En-us-headlock.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "headlock"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "en:Wrestling"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "head",
        "3": "lock"
      },
      "expansion": "head + lock",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From head + lock.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "headlocks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "headlock (plural headlocks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              36,
              44
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2011, Alex Turner, “Suck It And See”, in Suck It And See, performed by Arctic Monkeys:",
          "text": "Your love is like a studded leather headlock\nYour kiss, it could put creases in the rain\nYou're rarer than a can of dandelion and burdock\nAnd those other girls are just post-mix lemonade",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wrestling move where the attacker puts their arm tightly round their opponent's head, which the opponent can't easily escape from."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wrestling",
          "wrestling"
        ],
        [
          "attacker",
          "attacker"
        ],
        [
          "opponent",
          "opponent"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-us-headlock.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b0/En-us-headlock.ogg/En-us-headlock.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/En-us-headlock.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "wrestling move",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cravate"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "wrestling move",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schwitzkasten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "wrestling move",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Unterarmwürgegriff"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "wrestling move",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "glas cinn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "headlock"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "en:Wrestling"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "head",
        "3": "lock"
      },
      "expansion": "head + lock",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From head + lock.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "headlocks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "headlocking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "headlocked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "headlocked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "headlock (third-person singular simple present headlocks, present participle headlocking, simple past and past participle headlocked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To restrain in a headlock."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To restrain in a headlock."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-us-headlock.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b0/En-us-headlock.ogg/En-us-headlock.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/En-us-headlock.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "headlock"
}

Download raw JSONL data for headlock meaning in All languages combined (3.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (85b9f46 and 1b6da77). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.