v. t. | 1. | To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. | |||
2. | To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. | ||||
3. | To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. | ||||
4. | To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. | ||||
5. | To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
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v. i. | 1. | To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled. | |||
2. | To be checked, as if by choking; to stick. | ||||
n. | 1. | A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation. | |||
2. | (Gun.) The tied end of a cartridge. |
1. | choke - To reject input, often ungracefully. "NULs make System V's "lpr(1)" choke." "I tried building an Emacs binary to use X, but "cpp(1)" choked on all those "#define"s." See barf, gag. | ||
2. | choke - [MIT] More generally, to fail at any endeavor, but with some flair or bravado; the popular definition is "to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory." |