gag meaning
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[-æɡ] WGag
- A gag is usually a device designed to prevent speech, often as a restraint device to stop the subject from calling for help.
- The use of gags is commonly depicted in crime fiction, particularly in comics and novels. It is also often used in movies, such as Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
- Very rarely, courts have been known to gag unruly defendants; Bobby Seale was the most famous case.
- Occasionally a cloth over-the-mouth gag is used not to prevent speech but to keep dust and aerosols out of the lungs.
- NounPLgags
- 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.
- A joke or other mischievous prank.
- We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.
- A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
- (archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.
- a gag of mutton fat
- 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.
- VerbSGgagsPRgaggingPT, PPgagged
- (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.
- He gagged when he saw the open wound.
- (transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (U.S. Army, slang) To smoke: to order a recruit to exercise until he "gags" (usually spoken in exaggeration).
- (transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
- “[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
- When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.
- To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
- (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The stakes are low and the story beats are incidental amid the rush of largely mild visual gags and verbal sallies like “Blood Island! So called because it’s the exact shape of some blood!”
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of gag in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "gag" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.