Usually means: Move hands higher on bat.
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  1. choke up: Merriam-Webster
  2. choke up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. choke up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. choke up: Vocabulary.com
  5. choke up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. choke up: Wiktionary
  7. choke up: Dictionary.com
  8. choke up: Rhymezone
  9. choke up: FreeDictionary.org
  10. choke up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. choke up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. choke up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (choke up)

verb:  (intransitive) To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a person) temporarily to lose the power of speech, because of strong emotion.
verb:  (intransitive, often imperative) To cease talking.
verb:  (transitive, sometimes figurative) To block up; to cause something to be blocked.
verb:  (baseball, intransitive) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.

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