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throttlehold

n. A stranglehold

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throttlehold

n. 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, chokehold]

Usage examples of "throttlehold".

Back in the old days, before the moral United States got a throttlehold on the literary world, they used to write quite a bit about fiascoes.

An arm had me in a throttlehold, and I kicked back and heard a yelp of pain.