Usually means: Control or regulate flow or speed.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word throttle:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. throttle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. throttle: Merriam-Webster
  3. throttle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. throttle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. throttle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Throttle, throttle: Wordnik
  7. throttle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. throttle: Wiktionary
  9. throttle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. throttle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. throttle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. throttle: Dictionary.com
  13. throttle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. throttle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Throttle (disambiguation), Throttle (film), Throttle (novella), Throttle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Throttle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. throttle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. throttle: Rhymezone
  19. throttle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. throttle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. throttle: FreeDictionary.org
  22. throttle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. throttle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. throttle: Vocabulary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Throttle (internal combustion engine), throttle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Throttle (internal combustion engine), throttle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throttle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. throttle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. throttle: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Throttle: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See throttled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
noun:  The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
noun:  (anatomy, archaic) The windpipe or trachea.
verb:  (transitive) To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
verb:  (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
verb:  (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
verb:  (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
verb:  (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

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