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Choker   Listen
noun
Choker  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, chokes.
2.
A stiff wide cravat; a stock. (Slang)





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"Choker" Quotes from Famous Books



... which makes him so admirable as a pastor. "Is he social?" a friend asked me the other day. Yes. He is social. But that is not all. Mr. Work was social. But he was always a minister. He went about the streets in a metaphysical white choker and black gown. He was everywhere professional. When he opened the subject of personal religion he did it with an introduction as formal and stately as that with which he habitually began his sermons. He formally inducted ...
— Laicus - The experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish • Lyman Abbott
... smartest boys (a Jew by nationality, for we made no distinctions in election to our class), in recounting his adventures to me next day, said: "My! Doctor, I did have some fun kidding that waiter in the white choker. He took a liking to me so I let him pal up. I told him my name was Lord Shaftesbury when I was home, but I asked him not to let it out, and the old bloke promised he wouldn't." The "old bloke" happened to be our host, who was always in dress-clothes in the ...
— A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell


Words linked to "Choker" :   slayer, fraise, killer, unfortunate person, necklace, choke, garrotter, ruffle, neckband, neck ruff, collar, garroter, unfortunate


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