What's the difference between choker and strangler?
Choker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, chokes.
(n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock.
Example Sentences:
(1) It always seems strange that a team so relentlessly consistent in the regular season should have started to build a reputation as chokers in home elimination games, but thankfully for RSL, that reputation is gone, along with the two-time defending champions the Galaxy.
(2) RSL meanwhile have (thus far at least) dealt another blow to their reputation as home field chokers.
(3) High point Claiming the title in Melbourne in January 2006, after being dismissed for many years as a “choker”.
(4) membership callout Trump also did a better job at controlling his emotions when Hillary tried to bait him by calling him a choker and a “puppet”.
(5) Romney was dismissed by Donald Trump, the television personality and real estate magnate, as a “choker” who had had his turn while Bush’s support for the controversial Common Core educational standards was attacked by others.
(6) Jerome Kaino, Kieran Read, Brad Thorn and Richie McCaw do not have the air of chokers about them; behind the scrum Cory Jane gave one of the great aerial catching exhibitions and Israel Dagg again showed himself to be a monumental talent.
(7) Their Plan A isn't working and their Plan B is sitting on the bench ruing another wasted opportunity to show everybody that he's not a complete over-rated choker.
(8) I became his next target, and the incoming attacks have been constant and brutal.” Asked by the Journal about Romney, Trump stayed true to form, saying: “Once a choker, always a choker.
(9) Risk was greatest for tree fellers and choker-setters.
(10) Spanish optimism here is tempered only by the knowledge that their record in the World Cup has been so poor, so ignominious at times, they have grown wearily accustomed over the decades to the allegation that sportsmen dislike the most – that of being chokers.
(11) The LeBron-as-choker narrative has two fatal flaws: the pair of NBA titles the 29-year-old has already won.
(12) Hopefully, this will soon happen to the narrative of LeBron as a big-game choker.
(13) Lose it, on the other hand, and they will be damned as chronic chokers and many fans will call for Wenger to be ushered into retirement.
(14) Her mass of black curls swept across her head in a style adopted by Lorde, she's dressed up in a ribbon choker, silver slip dress, goth flatforms and a tatty leather jacket.
(15) I’ve got a store worth more than he is.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump calls Romney a ‘choker’ during a rally with supporters in Anaheim, California.
(16) Manning is not the choker that some make him out to be Peyton Manning still has one more hurdle to clear.
(17) We don’t come to Washington as shooters and chokers,” he shouted.
Strangler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, strangles.
Example Sentences:
(1) radiothom – "radiohead's "creep" single with my first ever b-side discovery 'faithless the wonder boy'" WiredofHermiston – The Best of the Stranglers: "The only actual albums I had were The Best of the Stranglers (Christmas present from brother who clearly just wanted it for himself) and, rather oddly, an early Elton John album, Honky Chateau I think."
(2) For your local taxpayer-subsidised theatre, low-tech high-return junk such as standup comedy, discredited TV psychics and Abba tribute acts float more worthwhile artists with identifiable skills – dancers, actors, puppeteers and ex-members of the Stranglers doing acoustic tours.
(3) There's a bigger connection, though: to The Dead Zone , in which Sheriff George Bannerman asks for John Smith's help to catch the Castle Rock Strangler, Frank Dodd.
(4) Lying on his sunlounger in Sousse, staring out over the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Hammamet and with The Stranglers playing through his earphones, Colin Bidwell thought life was good.
(5) Some are only heaps of laterite blocks, but many are still astonishing: the towering lotus buds of Angkor Wat, the haunting Ta Prohm, in the clutches of time and strangler figs.
(6) 1.02pm: Trinity Mirror's QC, Desmond Browne, stands to deny allegations made yesterday that the Sunday Mirror had a surveillance team take a suspect in the "Suffolk Strangler" murder hunt to a hotel in Ipswich for an interview in 2006.
(7) Since Jack Valenti, the legendary film industry lobbyist, said in 1982 that the VCR was like the Boston Strangler, preparing to murder the innocents of Hollywood, they have viewed such advances as a Godzilla creature rising from the sea to threaten their existence.
(8) 12.31pm: Penrose says he nearly "laughed out loud" when he heard allegations made at the inquiry yesterday that the Sunday Mirror had a surveillance operation in Ipswich during the hunt for the "Suffolk Strangler" in 2006.
(9) At that point I'd only seen about three gigs, including the Stranglers.
(10) • The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter is published by Fig Tree on Thursday.