Crossword clues for choker
choker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Choker \Chok"er\, n.
One who, or that which, chokes.
A stiff wide cravat; a stock. [Slang]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "one who chokes," agent noun from choke (v.). From 1848 as "large neckerchief;" as a kind of necklace, 1928.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (senseid en jewelry or accessory)A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace, tight to the throat. 2 One who, or that which, chokes or strangles. 3 One who operates the choke of an engine during ignition. 4 (context slang English) Any disappointing or upsetting circumstance. 5 One who performs badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when winning.
WordNet
n. someone who kills by strangling [syn: garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler]
an unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation; "he could win if he wasn't a choker"
necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck [syn: collar, dog collar, neckband]
Wikipedia
A choker is a close-fitting necklace worn around the neck. Chokers can be made of a variety of materials, including velvet, plastic, beads, leather, metal, such as silver, gold or platinum, etc. They can be adorned in a variety of ways, including with sequins, studs, or a pendant.
The common type of chokers include Victorian, vintage, open collar, Gothic, pendant, gemstones, or tattoo.
Historically, it was associated with high fashion, but could take on different meanings under different circumstances. Ballerinas and the upper class in the late 19th century commonly wore certain types of chokers. However, at that same time, a plain, thin, red or black ribbon choker had ties to prostitution in the late 19th century, as seen in Manet's Olympia (1861), while a plain black woven choker or ribbon could signify secret lesbianism in the Depression era.
Chokers appeared in 1798 as a French cultural jewel that was worn by wealthy ladies. in 1874 it was worn by ballerinas and in the early 1880s by queens.
Chokers became quite popular among women and girls in the 1990s. The 1990s fashion trend has recently resurfaced in the mid-2010s.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the choker is an aberration. It can be used by Dungeon Masters as an enemy or ally of the player characters.
Choker is a 2005 American science fiction action horror film written and directed by Nick Vallelonga and starring Paul Sloan, Colleen Porch, Hayley DuMond, Anthony John Denison, Robert R. Shafer, Katrina Law, and Jesse Corti. The film premiered March 19, 2005, at the Other Venice Film Festival and was released under the title Disturbance on DVD by MTI Home Video in October 2006.
A choker is a close-fitting necklace, worn high on the neck.
Choker or Chokers may also refer to:
- Choker (film), a 2005 American film written and directed by Nick Vallelonga
- Choker (Dungeons & Dragons), an aberration in the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
- Choker Campbell (1916–1993), American musician
- Choker, a cable end used in logging (see choke setter)
- An engineering measure for traffic calming
- Lengths of cable used in the transport of harvested trees, after cable logging
- Choke artist, or choker, individuals/teams that cannot cope with pressure in important situations
Usage examples of "choker".
Shape-ups were held in the predawn down by the Vineland courthouse, shadowy brown buses idling in the dark, work and wages posted silently in the windows some mornings Zoyd had gone down, climbed on, ridden out with other newcomers, all cherry to the labor market up here, former artists or spiritual pilgrims now becoming choker setters, waiters and waitresses, baggers and checkout clerks, tree workers, truckdrivers, and framers, or taking temporary swamping jobs like this, all in the service of others, the ones who did the building, selling, buying and speculating.
Sam Bohee, coloured coons in white duck suits, scarlet socks, upstarched Sambo chokers and large scarlet asters in their buttonholes, leap out.
He bowed and smiled in the most unexceptionable of white chokers and the dapperest of dress coats, and drew off the whitest imaginable pair of kid gloves, when he sat down to the piano, subsiding in a sort of bow upon the music-stool, and striking those few, brisk and noisy chords with which such artists proclaim silence and reassure themselves.
Purplestar sweaters, antique pendants, beaded chokers, organic nuts, horoscopes, sciencefiction movies, fourdollar transparent soap, big English cars, Mexican villas, ecology, pink rolling paper, brownies, seaweed with my pork chops, soy noodles, dacron, rayon, orlon acrylic, Fortrel polyester, Lycra spandex, leather, vinyl, suede, velvet, velours, canvas.
Tenderly, in every sense, he monitored their facelifts and breast-implants, their tattoos, pubic hairdos, the bodies in question increasingly encrusted with cellulite and jewelry, chokers, anklets, bracelets, nipple-rings, navel-studs, tongue-claspsheavy brooches, carbuncles, pierced into the tongue.
She was wearing a four-strand choker of her favorite gems and a bright-coral jersey dress that fondled every curve.
And lots of people, too, the men mostly gotten up in those suits with the four-button jackets, stiff shirts with those choker collars, and no tie but a little jeweled stud.
He saw from his window the good vicar walk smiling by, in white choker and seedy black, his little boy holding by his fingers, and capering and wheeling in front, and smiling up in his face.
She likely showed that much bodice so nobody could miss the pearl choker she wore around her neck, as if she was that redheaded Princess Alex of Wales instead of .
Mother Confessor standing before her in a sparkling white dress, wearing a choker of jewels worth half her kingdom, she were to see her on a horse, naked, painted white and drenched in blood, as she hacked with a sword at the faces of men trying to kill her.
But then, she needed adorning like the Venus de Milo needed a velvet choker and diamond tiara.
Can I explain to a plainclothes man about gauzy blouses, long flared skirts, superbitchy underwear, chokers, earrings, pins and clips?
Every woman present seemed to be wearing diamond chokers and tiaras, sapphire earrings, and emerald rings.
Sam Bohee, coloured coons in white duck suits, scarlet socks, upstarched Sambo chokers and large scarlet asters in their buttonholes, leap out.
Leaving a trail of cast-off accessories, shoes and gloves and chokers and hats to lighten their load so's they can cross the Rocky Mountains, that would be us.