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Definition of 'gag'English
Abbreviation
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(Group-specific antigen)
group specific antigens
Noun
( en-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.
(legal) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
A joke or other mischievous prank.
* {{quote-news
|year=2012
|date=May 20
|author=Nathan Rabin
|title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)
|work=The Onion AV Club
citation
|page=
|passage=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
- (Lamb)
Synonyms
* (legal) gag order
* (joke) See also
Derived terms
* sight gag
Verb
To experience the vomiting reflex.
- He gagged when he saw the open wound.
To cause to heave with nausea.
(rfc-sense) To : to order a recruit to exercise until he "gags" (usually spoken in exaggeration).
To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
* {{quote-book|year=1905|author=
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|passage=“[…] 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. […]”}}
- ''The victims could not speak because the burglar had gagged them with duct tape.
(figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
- When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.
* Macaulay
- The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged , and reason to be hoodwinked.
To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
* Fortescue (translation)
- mouths gagged to such a wideness
Derived terms
* gag me with a spoon
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