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What does hammerlock mean?

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Noun
  1. A hold, in wrestling, in which an opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back; an armlock
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If any guy tried to whisper some of those same words in her ear, she'd have put a hammerlock on him and called him a pig.
When Fred had him tight, he caught one of Jock's straying arms, bent it slowly behind his back, and contrived a hammerlock.
The odd thing was that the psychopathic twist which got hammerlock Smith into trouble had been able to get him out of it again.
Mendelssohn also suffered two physical constraints, a hammerlock stutter and a severe curvature of the spine that gave him a hump.
They started with a lockup, and HHH gained control with a hammerlock.
The cotter pin is a hammerlock style and locks into place by hitting the head sharply with a hammer.

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