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]