chokeslam
noun, verb
chokeslam is a noun meaning “A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and driven into the mat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-O-K-E-S-L-A-M, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chokeslam is chokeslams.
What does chokeslam mean?
noun
- 1
A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and driven into the mat.
verb
- 1
To perform this move on (an opponent).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chokeslam
- chokeslams plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- chokeslamming participle, present
- chokeslammed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chokeslam?
Chokeslam appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does chokeslam come from?
From choke + slam.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).