"choke-hold" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: choke-holds [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} choke-hold (plural choke-holds)
  1. Alternative form of chokehold Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: chokehold
    Sense id: en-choke-hold-en-noun-HgAPy~UA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "In The World Crisis, his 1927 history of the First World War, he had called the struggle between British sailors and German U-boats 'in scale and in stake the greatest conflict ever decided at sea', and he remembered all too clearly the dreadful choke-hold of the 1917 German submarine blockade.",
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