To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
To stifle or suppress.
To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
A trading strategy using options, constructed through taking equal positions in a put and a call with different strike prices, such that there is a payoff if the underlying asset's value moves beyond the range of the two strike prices.
To become tighter.
To make tighter.
To raise short-term interest rates.
To make money harder to borrow or obtain.