gag
IPA: gˈæg
noun
- A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
- (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
- (figurative) Any suppression of freedom of speech.
- A joke or other mischievous prank.
- (film) a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick
- A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
- (archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.
- (archaic, slang, uncountable) Unscripted lines introduced by an actor into his part.
- Mycteroperca microlepis, a species of grouper.
- Abbreviation of group-specific antigen. [The genetic material that codes for the structural protein of a retrovirus.]
verb
- (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.
- (transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
- (transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
- (transitive) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
- (transitive, intransitive) To choke; to retch.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, slang) To deceive (someone); to con.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, LGBT) To astonish (someone); (to cause someone) to be at a loss for words; to leave speechless; to be left speechless.
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Examples of "gag" in Sentences
- The “Colbert Report” gag is getting very tiresome.
- More Woody: The title gag goes as follows | FreakyTrigger
- Seriously though, your gag is just spamming up the place.
- (A Lion King sight gag is one of the pilot episode's best.)
- March 23rd, 2010 at 9: 36 pm glamourdammerung says: hunt, the borat gag is getting old.
- I was too young to realize that the title gag was about drugs, but I still thought it was hilarious.
- Thus as the NDTV has rightly said - "Orissa cops have taken the term gag order to a new level altogether."
- I dont know what the old bear gag is but i like to take empty rifle bullets and throw them in the fire when everyone is watching!
- These two have an awesome rapport, and we think you'll agree that the last one featuring a funny "it was all a dream" gag is the best.
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