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Gag   /gæg/   Listen
Gag

noun
1.
A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter.  Synonyms: jape, jest, joke, laugh.  "He knows a million gags" , "Thanks for the laugh" , "He laughed unpleasantly at his own jest" , "Even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"
2.
Restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting.  Synonym: muzzle.
verb
(past & past part. gagged; pres. part. gagging)
1.
Prevent from speaking out.  Synonym: muzzle.
2.
Be too tight; rub or press.  Synonyms: choke, fret.
3.
Tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them.  Synonym: muzzle.
4.
Make jokes or quips.  Synonym: quip.
5.
Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake.  Synonyms: choke, strangle, suffocate.
6.
Cause to retch or choke.  Synonym: choke.
7.
Make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit.  Synonyms: heave, retch.



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"Gag" Quotes from Famous Books



... doughnuts boiled in oil and snowed under in powdered sugar! Cookies that bit with a snap. Filet of sole boned with fingers deft at it and served with a merest fluff of tartar sauce. Marcia ate like that. Preciously. Pecksniffily. An egg at breakfast a gag to the sensibilities! So Hattie ate hers in the kitchen, standing, and tucked the shell out of sight, wrapped in a lettuce leaf. Beefsteak, for instance, sickened Marcia, because there was blood ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst

... Coeurdemont, falls in love with Fillamour. By the help of a confidant, Antonia, the lovers are enabled to arrange a plan of escape. On the eve of the wedding Fillamour breaks into the house and, leaving his servants to bind and gag the father, flies immediately to ...
— The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood • George Frisbie Whicher

... he resumed, "and I replied. You may gag me if my responses do not please you. If there were witnesses for me as there are against me, I could prove the truth of my words. As it is, all the prisoners here will tell you that I am speaking the truth. Is ...
— The Honor of the Name • Emile Gaboriau

... asleep, and so was Tammy, "like a top, and snoring too like one," whispered Yaspard as he led the way. Tammy did not even move when they gently and deftly tied his hands together, and put a not uncomfortable gag over his mouth, and he only snored a little louder, but did not wake, when they lifted him up. (Tammy always went to bed with a complete suit of clothes on, which he kept for the purpose, saying he did not see why a "puir body" should not be as decently clothed all night as all day.) They carried ...
— Viking Boys • Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby

... Chick instantly sat up under the sheet. Then he threw it aside, got down from the slab, and advanced toward Nick and Jarvis, removing his gag and ...
— The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories • Nicholas Carter


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