choke on

choke on something

to gag and cough on something stuck in the throat. The dog choked on the meat. The restaurant patron began to choke on a fish bone.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Mahmud	-	Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay
Emlyn	-	Welsh
Jethro	JETH-ro (English)	Biblical
Sizwe	-	Southern African, Xhosa
Neophytos	-	Ancient Greek
Meurig	-	Welsh