headlock
headlock noun: a wrestling move where the attacker puts their arm tightly round their opponent's head, from which the opponent cannot easily escape.
Noun
headlock (plural headlocks)
- A wrestling move where the attacker puts their arm tightly round their opponent's head, from which the opponent cannot easily escape.
- Your love is like a studded leather headlock
Your kiss, it could put creases in the rain
You're rarer than a can of dandelion and burdock
And those other girls are just post-mix lemonade2011, Alex Turner, “Suck It And See”, in Suck It And See, performed by Arctic Monkeys
- Your love is like a studded leather headlock
Verb
headlock (third-person singular simple present headlocks, present participle headlocking, simple past and past participle headlocked)
- To restrain in a headlock.
Forms of headlock
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | headlocks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | headlocks |
| present participle | headlocking |
| past participle | headlocked |
| past | headlocked |
Origin of headlock
From head + lock.
Questions about headlock
- What does headlock mean?
- Headlock means a wrestling move where the attacker puts their arm tightly round their opponent's head, from which the opponent cannot easily escape.
- What part of speech is headlock?
- Headlock can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of headlock?
- The plural of headlock is headlocks.
Words near headlock in the dictionary
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