sleeper hold
Neck-compressing wrestling move
A sleeper hold is a chokehold that compresses the neck to restrict blood flow to the brain, causing unconsciousness if maintained.
The term comes from wrestling, where it's a submission move that puts opponents "to sleep." It appears in martial arts, professional wrestling, and discussions of police restraint techniques: He locked in a sleeper hold and the match was over.
- rear naked chokeBlood-restricting neck submission
- blood chokeChoke blocking blood flow
- chokeholdNeck-constricting restraint
- strangleholdOppressive, unbreakable control
- lockMechanism requiring a key
wrestling · pro wrestling · passing out · grappling · vagus nerve · choke out · lights out · carotid artery · oxygen deprivation · syncope · submission · finishing move · unconsciousness · neck · jiu-jitsu · MMA · self-defense · suffocate
- Pro Wrestlingheel, WrestleMania, face turn, Royal Rumble, kayfabe
- fighting movespunch, uppercut, kick, jab, elbow strike
- wrestling movessuplex, powerbomb, piledriver, clothesline, dropkick
- restraintshandcuffs, shackles, chains, ropes, cuffs
- signature movesfinishing move, trademark, special attack, special move, signature move
- Japanese wrestlingsumo wrestling, yokozuna, honbasho, makuuchi, heya
sleeper holdrevival
Return after decline
resuscitation · wake-up call · smelling salts · awakening · stimulant
hold, sleep, sleeping, slept, sleeper, sleepiness, sleepless