Clutching
Both words in one sentence
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After Rolento tugs the wire to hang it from a hook at the top of the screen, the target is then yanked toward Rolento, clutching at their throat.
Source: Vertical Kidnapping -
Clutching Hand Trap: Turk has gotten his hand stuck in both a candy vending-machine, and a an ice dispensing machine (apparently the latter also happened to Leonard the Hook-Handed Security Guard) and JD once got his hand stuck in a coffee jug.
Source: Series / Scrubs - In the Season 1 episode of Peter Pan & the Pirates "Slightly In Stone" the gang finds Captain Hook's severed skeletal hand clutching his sword in the crocodile's cave, however in the Season 2 episode "First Encounter" Peter took Hook's sword from him to cut off his hand.
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