Usage of "choke hold"

Portuguese

A restraining hold; someone loops the arm around the neck of another person in a tight grip, usually from behind.

Usage of choke hold in English

If you let them get a choke hold, you were both going down. 
 A killing night 

Chance got a choke hold on Mason, who seemed to instantly drain of fight. 
 Keeping christmas 

Tim had taken over the choke hold on Marty's thug. 
 Body work 

Looking up from the floor I saw Torenzi grab the engineer in a choke hold. 
 Don't blink 

The sobs put a choke hold on my mirth. 
 Flash and Bones 

Frankly, I was tired of using a choke hold. 
 I shot you babe 

My anonymous teammate scooped up the gun and put our guy in a choke hold. 
 Body work 

The trouble was the audience loved him, which gave him a choke hold on them now. 
 Sisters 

I crept out and got it in a choke hold, then a second one jumped me. 
 Dragons of autumn twilight 

The choke hold around her neck remained rigid. 
 Damaged 

Before he could get the choke hold on, I slipped down and backed out of his grasp. 
 Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery 

She's lucky Tami's trying to become a new person, otherwise, she might have been in a choke hold. 
 Ebony 

With Vic (as in, my victim) facedown, I climbed on top and began my choke hold. 
 I shot you babe 

He didn't let go of the halligan, but he wasn't struggling to free himself from Albert's choke hold, either. 
 The Fireman 

Then one worker proceeds to hold her colleague in a choke hold as she wrestles her to the ground. 
 News.com.au 

Green then delivered numerous punches to Ramsey's helmet never the smartest idea and put another MMA-style choke hold on Ramsey. 
 The Guardian 

Translations for choke hold

Portuguese

Meanings of choke hold in English