strangle🔊

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.

To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

(finance) 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.