wrestling hold

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wrestling hold - a hold used in the sport of wrestling

rassling, wrestling, grappling - the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down

clutch, clutches, grip, hold, clasp, clench, grasp - the act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing"

bear hug - a wrestling hold with arms locked tightly around the opponent

nelson - any of several wrestling holds in which an arm is passed under the opponent's arm from behind and the hand exerts pressure on the back of the neck

Japanese stranglehold - a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arms are crossed in front of his own neck to exert pressure on his windpipe

lock - any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

scissor grip, scissor hold, scissors grip, scissors hold, scissors - a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze

stranglehold - a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe

toehold - a wrestling hold in which the toe is held and the leg is twisted against the joints

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As Tarzan had overcome the huge Terkoz that time years before when he had been about to set out upon his quest for human beings of his own kind and colour, so now he overcame this other great ape with the same wrestling hold upon which he had stumbled by accident during that other combat.

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He said that the tackle on Mohamed Salah, by Sergio Ramos, was similar to the wrestling hold he used to make to make opponents submit.

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Despite excruciating pain, Scholl not only refused to let go of the masked miscreant, but eventually subdued her by placing her in a disabling wrestling hold. She then maintained that hold until police, who were summoned by another employee, arrived.

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I'm not sure that the tender velvety mesh of branches, roots, bulbs, and stems is not really an interminable wrestling hold; that there isn't perpetual chemical warfare going on among roots, among root-stocks, and among seeds; that there isn't some limitless hyena-ism of the stronger ones against the weaker ones, sick ones, humiliated ones--all of which is obscured in our delusion of a great symbiotic tranquillity, hidden behind the veil of a harmonic biocenosis.