0 a way of holding someone's arm from behind with both of your arms and holding their neck with your hands, so that it is difficult for them to move, used in wrestling (= a sport in which two people fight and try to throw each other to the ground):
If I argued with my brother, he would put me in a full nelson.
That was all Raikkonen needed to put a full nelson on the race.
Disaster suddenly struck with a merciless full nelson of reality.
