CHOKE

Choke

Choke is a 2008 black comedy film written and directed by Clark Gregg. The film stars Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston. Production took place in New Jersey in 2007. It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was purchased by Fox Searchlight Pictures for distribution. The film was released on September 26, 2008 and the DVD was released on February 17, 2009.

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choke

Noun

  1. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
  2. In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
  3. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
  4. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.

Verb

  1. To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way.
  2. To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.
  3. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
    to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud
  4. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
  5. to reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
  6. To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
  7. To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
  8. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
  9. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
  10. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.


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