Definitions for headlock

headlock head·lock

Spelling: [hed-lok]
IPA: /ˈhɛdˌlɒk/

Headlock is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 272 anagrams from letters in headlock (acdehklo).

Definitions for headlock

noun

  1. a hold in which a wrestler locks an arm around the opponent's head.

Origin of headlock

First recorded in 1900-05; head + lock1

Examples for headlock

I ended up bringing him out in a headlock to find the police.

She then went for his cellphone and he put her in a headlock while steering the vehicle with his left hand.

Moments later, she said, McCullough ran inside and put Karger in a headlock.

The last one jumped on me, trying to get me in a headlock, but I wriggled out of it and decked him too.

Sharpton spoke of the moment they had all seen in the video when Pantaleo kept Garner in a headlock despite his pleas.

Stan was not sure that he could hold the headlock he had slid down into a strangle grip.

Like a flash he whirled on Allerdyce and grabbed a headlock.

For now though, the big guys seem to have the cultural zeitgeist in a headlock.

headlock, Elder Stephen,—complains of camp murmuring—reproved, 119.

Word Value for headlock
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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