Source : WordNet®

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}]