[
US
/ˈhæmɝˌɫɑk/
]
[ UK /hˈæməlˌɒk/ ]
[ UK /hˈæməlˌɒk/ ]
NOUN
- a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back
How To Use hammerlock In A Sentence
- FREEMAN: Well, I think the right-wing elements that I referred to, which are loosely called the Israel lobby -- as I said, I'd prefer the term Likud lobby -- in fact have a hammerlock on both public discussion and policy. CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2009
- Given the hammerlock that Visa, Mastercard and American Express have on the market, the only sure way to prevent them from charging excessive fees and earning monopoly-like profits is through direct regulation. Credit card companies figure out how to spin straw into gold
- The public conduct of my fellow atheists was so lacking in sobriety and gravity that I began to wonder why, if we atheists had a hammerlock on truth, so much of what we said was pointless or naive. Review - Orphans Of Chaos, by John C. Wright
- She held him in a contorted hammerlock with his left arm behind his back. A KING'S RANSOM
- Nunzio gets out of a hammerlock by telling the ref that Funaki was pulling on his hair.
- Walters tags in and grabs a hammerlock on Spanky.
- Alaa Abd El Fattah, an activist and well known political blogger in Cairo, toldDemocracy Now that the crowd “could continue to escalate, either by claiming more places or by actually moving inside these buildings, if the need comes.” With the economy choking to death, the demonstrators were now moving to put a hammerlock on the government apparatus itself. Michael Schwartz: The (Sometimes) Incredible Power of Nonviolent Protest
- They started with a lockup, and HHH gained control with a hammerlock.
- But as the year goes on, we'll try to break some of that hammerlock, both so that environmental review can go forward, and so that we can stop wasting taxpayer money on subsidies and handouts to the industry. Keystone XL Pipeline: Obama Administration Announcing It Will Not Go Forward With Controversial Plan
- RUDIN: No, and that's one that the Democrats should have run away with, and that's the one with Richard Blumenthal, the state attorney general, against Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive, who seems to have a hammerlock on him going into November 2nd. Political Attack Ads Work, But Are They True?