Gag

Definition: Gag

Gag

Noun

1. A humorous anecdote or remark.

2. Restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting.

Verb

1. Prevent from speaking.

2. Be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat".

3. Make jokes or quips; "The students were gagging during dinner".

4. Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged".

5. Cause to retch or choke.

6. Make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gag" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Note: Gag \Gag\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Gagged; Gagging.]. (references)

Computing

Medicine

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

GAG

gag

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Gag

Aphony

Silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress, smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence, stop one's mouth, cut one short.

Pain

Intolerable, insufferable, insupportable; unbearable, unendurable; past bearing; not to be borne, not to be endured; more than flesh and blood can bear; enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot.

Prison

Yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle; rein, reins; bearing rein; martingale; leading string; tether, picket, band, guy, chain; cord; (fastening); cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons.

Restraint

Enchain; fasten; (join); fetter, shackle; entrammel; bridle, muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters; disable, hamstring (incapacitate).

The Drama

Verb: act, play, perform; put on the stage; personate; mimic; (imitate); enact; play a part, act a part, go through a part, perform a part; rehearse, spout, gag, rant; "strut and fret one's hour upon a stage"; tread the boards, tread the stage; come out; star it.

Performance, representation, mise en scene, stagery, jeu de theatre; acting; gesture; impersonation; stage business, gag, buffoonery.

Crosswords: Gag

Czech (gag), French (gag, joke), German (gag, gimmick, joke), Swedish (gag).

At the end of every game, I give them points, I don't know why. It's just a little gag to hold the show together (Whose Line Is It Anyway?; writing credit: Dan Patterson; Mark Leveson)

And when it leaves one for the next, not going to gag here, the first one goes kaplooey pretty fast (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles)

Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses (Sex and the City; writing credit: Mark Leiren-Young)

She said it was a gag gift (Designing Women; writing credit: Poul Thomsen)

Listen missies, the gag won't work unless you order milk (Toraigan; writing credit: Yôsuke Kuroda)

Gag Buster (1957)

Gift for Gag (1954)

Gag and Baggage (1952)

Tag the Gag (1951)

Gag Factor 9 (2002)

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Books

• Animation, Caricature, and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States and Canada: An International Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture) (reference)

• Satan's Gag Order (reference)

• Shrek Gag Book (reference)

• The Funny Thing (Wanda Gag Classics) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Big Gag (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Gag Me with a Spoon (reference)

• Gag Me with a Tune (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Gag is the most common grouper in the southeast U.S. Mycteroperca microlepis. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

And then she put her thumb in her mouth for a gag and she cried silently

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Health

Symptoms of upper motor neuron involvement include tight and stiff muscles (spasticity) and exaggerated reflexes (hyperreflexia) including an overactive gag reflex. (references)

Civil Liberties

Chile

The press has begun using foreign Internet web sites to publish articles when gag orders are issued. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

The censorship office notified media outlets that a court had issued a gag order on Ya'acov's arrest. (references)

Panama

In 1999 the President signed a law that eliminated gag laws, thereby improving the legal status of the media. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "gag": enough to gag a maggot ♦ gag bit ♦ Gag law ♦ gag line ♦ gag reflex ♦ Gag rein ♦ gag rule ♦ Gag runner ♦ gag smb. ♦ gag up ♦ sight gag. Additional references.

Beginning with "gag": gag-binding, gag-dependent, gag-heavy, gag-master, gag-onc, gag-telling, gag-toothed.

Ending with "gag": anti-gag, hit-gag, hiv-gag.

Albanian

tapë (Bibb, bung, bunghole, Cork, Corky, float, obturator, pickled, plug, rabbit, spigot, stopper, stopple, tap, wad), siguresë (fuse, fuze), shtrëngohem për të vjellë, shaka (badinage, crack, facetiae, hoax, jape, jest, jocosity, jocularity, joke, lark, persiflage, play, pleasantry, prank, quiz, spoof, trick, waggery), mbyllje diskutimi, mbyll gojën (silence), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick), i mbyll gojën (quench), bëj shaka (badinage, jape, jest, joke, kid, make a game of, make smb. laugh, quiz, rally, rot, trifle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كمم (muzzle, quantify), ‏كعم, ‏مزحة خادعة, ‏هفوة (lapse, peccadillo, slip, trip), ‏نكتة (anecdote, crack, hoax, jest, joke, pleasantries, rib, witticism), ‏نكت, ‏وسيلة لتقييد حرية, ‏حيلة (artifice, deceit, device, dodge, expedient, fetch, finesse, fraud, imposition, makeshift, monkey business, ploy, prank, ruse, sleight, stalking horse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, twist, wile), ‏تقيأ (disgorge, heave, puke, regurgitate, reject, retch, spew, throw up, upchuck, vomit), ‏سد الغم, ‏خدعة (artifice, deception, dodge, fetch, fraud, hoax, ploy, ruse, sleight, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile), ‏أسكت (hunt down, hush, put down, shush, silence, smack of, still). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усторазширител, шегувам се (chaff, jape, jest, joke, jolly, rally, rot, sport), остроумна реплика, не мога да понасям, мамя (cozen, deceive, dupe, fiddle, flim-flam, gouge, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, play along, play possum with, rook, shark, stick, string along, take, twist, victimize), запушване на устата, запушвам устата на (talk down), прекратяване на дебатите, предизвиквам гадене, импровизация на актьор, импровизирам (ad lib, extemporize, fake, improvise, jam, throw off, toss off), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist). (various references)

Catalan

broma (joke). (various references)

Chinese 

� �嘴 (Gagged, Gagging). (various references)

Czech

gag, vtip (joke, wit), trik (dodge, dor, foist, gimmick, hocus pocus, racket, subterfuge, trick, wangle), roubík (picket, pin, setting-stick), komický výstup, žert (fun, jape, jest, joke, prank). (various references)

Danish

mundspærre (biting block), mundaabner (biting block), hestebremse (bot fly), bidkile (biting block), bideklods (biting block). (various references)

Dutch

moppen tappen. (various references)

Esperanto

rakonti ŝercojn, ŝerco (joke), ŝercaĵo (joke). (various references)

Farsi 

پوزه بندبستن , محدودکردن (Bound, Compass, Confine, Cramp, Curb, Dam, Impale, Limit, Narrow, Qualify, Quantify, Restrict, Stint, Straiten, Terminate), مانع فراهم کردن برای , قصه یاعمل خنده اور, شیرین کاری (Jig, Stunt), دهان بندبستن , دهان بازکن . (various references)

Finnish

gag-kuolain, suunavaaja, suunaukaisin, suukapula, kapula (baton, stick). (various references)

French

gag. (various references)

Frisian

grapke (joke), aardichheid (entertainment, fun, joke, pleasure). (various references)

German

Witz (jest, joke, quip, story, wisecrack, wit, witticism), knebeln, Gag (gimmick, joke), knebel (toggle). (various references)

Greek 

αστείο (antics, chaff, fun, hoax, jape, jest, joke, pleasantry, sport). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפקוק (bung, plug, wad), לחסום פ�", ל�"תב�"ח (jape, joke), ל�"ר�'יש בחיל�" (feel queer), פקק (bung, logjam, peg, plug, spigot, stopper, tap), �"לצ�" (badinage, jest, joke, pleasantry), ב�"יח�" (anecdote, funny story, jape, jest, joke). (various references)

Hungarian

szájpecek. (various references)

Indonesian

sumbat (cork, pledget, stopper, tampion, wadding), seloroh (caprice, freak, tic, vagary, whim), menyumbat mulut, lawak (buffoon, feeding trough, jest), canda (caprice, freak, tic, vagary, whim). (various references)

Italian

scherzo (banter, child's play, frolic, frolics, game, hoaw, jape, jest, joke, lark, play, prank, quiz, rag, trick, trifle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

猿轡 , ギターの弦 (boy, fee paid to performing artists, gadget bag, gal, gallery, gammon, gap, gather, gathered skirt, gibberellin, gift, gift card, gift certificate, gift check, gift coupon, gift package, gift shop, gimmick, give up, give-and-take, guarantee, guignol, Guiness Book of Records, guitar amplifier, guitar magazine, guitar string, guitar synthesizer, guitarist, gypsum, kind of Indian spice, male waiter, teenage mother). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さるぐつわ, ギャグ . (various references)

Korean 

발언금지. (various references)

Manx

gobbane, cur gobbane er. (various references)

Norwegian

vits, spøk (hoax, jest, joke), kneble, knebel. (various references)

Papiamen

chiste (joke), chasko (joke), broma (joke). (various references)

Pig Latin

aggay.(various references)

Portuguese

piada (anecdote, dig, jerk, jest, joke), mordaça (muzzle), brincadeira (a practical joke, badinage, banter, dalliance, diversion, drollery, escapade, frisk, frolic, fun, gambol, game, gibe, gird, hoax, humor, humour, jape, jest, jibe, joke, joking, josh, lark, play, pleasantry, practical joke, prank, raillery, rig, sport, waggery). (various references)

Romanian

glumå (joke), glumã (chaff, farce, frolic, fun, game, jape, jest, joke, lark, play, prank, sport, trick, wheeze, wisecrack, wit, witticism), se îneca (choke, drown), pune zãbalã, pune cãluş, provoca greţuri, minciunã (bung, deceit, fabrication, falsehood, fib, lie, lying, tale, untruth), truvai, se sufoca (choke, smother, stifle, strangle), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize), face glume (jape), cordar (tongue), constrânge la tãcere, cãluş, ban (ban, bribe, coin, fortune, mite, soap), adãuga cuvinte la rol, improvizaţie comicã. (various references)

Russian 

роторасширитель, кляп (barnacle), вставлять кляп, отсебятина (wheeze), обманывать (befool, beguile, bilk, cheat, deceive, deceiving, defraud, delude, disappoint, do, double cross, flimflam, fob, fool into thinking, gull, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, kid, mump, practise deceit, practise deception, prey, pull a fast one, swindle, victimize), обман (bunco, bunko, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, cram, deceit, deception, dissimulation, do, double cross, double dealing, false pretence, false pretences, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudging, gammon, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hanky-panky, have on, have-on, hokum, humbug, imposture, jugglery, leasing, leg pull, legerdemain, lie, lurk, overreach, skin-game, spoof, swindle, take in, take-in, trick, trickeries, trickery, wile), заставить замолчать (compel silence, shush, silence, squash, squelcher), затычка (bung, obturator, pad, peg, plug, stopgap, stopper, stopple, tampion), давиться кляп, давиться. (various references)

Scottish

sùicean (a gag for a calf). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

geg, zapušiti (block, clog, congest, jam, obturate, occlude, plug, stop, stop up, stopple), začepiti (block, clog, cork, obturate, occlude, plug, tamp), smetnja za govor. (various references)

Spanish

broma (badinage, banter, cantrip, facetiae, fun, jag, jape, jest, joke, lark, panic, pleasantry, prank, quiz), chanza (badinage, banter, jest, joke, pleasantry), burla (circumvention, derision, gibe, jape, jeer, jest, jibe, joke, persiflage, ragging, scoff, scoffing, skit, sneer, takeoff, trick), mordaza (clamp, jaw), amordazar (muzzle). (various references)

Sranan

spotu (jeer at, joke, make fun of, mock). (various references)

Swedish

vits (equivoke, equivoque, funny, joke, pun, witticism), skämt (banter, booby-trap, foul, fun, funny, jape, jest, jesting, joke, jokes, joking, lark, pleasantry, trifling, wheeze), sätta munkavle på, munkavle (muzzle). (various references)

Tagalog

birò (joke). (various references)

Thai

พู�"ตลก (jest, joke), อุ�"ปาก, คลื่นเหียน. (various references)

Turkish

güldürücü şey, ağız tıkacı, ağzını tıkamak (quench), alay (banter, cortege, derision, fleet, fun, gibe, irony, jape, jeer, jest, jibe, joke, leg pull, mock, mockery, parade, persiflage, procession, quiz, regiment, regimental, ridicule, rub, scoff, sneer, taunt, teasing, troops in line, wipe), ameliyatta ağıza takılan alet, azízlík (joke), öğürmek (heave, keck, retch), espri yapmak (joke, quip), tıkaç (bung, Cork, filler, packing, plug, spigot, spill, stopper, stopple, tampon, wad, wadding), komik söz, komiklik yapmak, kusacak gibi olmak (feel queasy), kusturmak (make sick, puke, regurgitate, spew, spue, turn up), mecliste konuşmaların son bulması, susturmak (blanket, Burke, confute, cut short, hush, outtalk, quiet, quieten, score off, settle smb.'s hash, shush, shut up, silence, squelch, still, Stow, wither), eğlence (amusement, bash, beano, blow out, carnival, conviviality, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fete, frolic, fun, gaiety, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jolliness, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, play, plaything, racket, recreation, recreational, rejoicing, relaxation, revel, saturnalia, setout, sport). (various references)

Ukrainian

кляп (barnacle), затикати рота (muzzle), заглушка, жартувати (badinage, banter, chaff, droll, fun, jape, jest, joke, jolly, lark, lark around, monkey, play, trifle, yak), примусити замовкнути (shout smb. down, shush, silence, still), дотеп (esprit, joke, mot, nifty, quirk, repartee, salt, wheeze, wisecrack, witticism, yak), давитися (gulp, tuck in). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật nhét v� o miệng cho khỏi kêu la, lời nói dối (falsehood, falsity, stretcher), cái nút (snarl, stopple), cái bịt miệng. (various references)

Yucatec

baaxal t'aan (joke). (various references)

iocus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gag": gaga, gagaku, gagakus, gage, gaged, gager, gagers, gages, gagged, gagger, gaggers, gagging, gaggle, gaggled, gaggles, gaggling, gaging, gagman, gagmen, gags, gagster, gagsters. (additional references)

Words ending with "gag": lallygag, lollygag. (additional references)

Words containing "gag": baggage, baggages, burgage, burgages, degage, disengage, disengaged, disengagement, disengagements, disengages, disengaging, engage, engaged, engagement, engagements, engager, engagers, engages, engaging, engagingly, foggage, foggages, greengage, greengages, lallygagged, lallygagging, lallygags, lollygagged, lollygagging, lollygags, luggage, luggages, megagamete, megagametes, megagametophyte, megagametophytes, mortgage, mortgaged, mortgagee, mortgagees, mortgager, mortgagers, mortgages, mortgaging, mortgagor, mortgagors, nonengagement, nonengagements, reengage, reengaged, reengagement. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gag" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agag, Agcg, agg, aggghh, agj, agv, bgag, dgag, gaav, gac, gaf, G'ag, Ga'g, gagg, Gagik, Gago, gah, gai, gaj, gaq, garg, gaug, gaugy, gav, gaw, gax, gaz, Gbago, geg, gegn, Gegu, Geogg, gerg, gev, gfa, gg, Gga, Ggat, ggg, ggt, ghg, gieg, gigg, gigi, gigm, gign, gigy, gij, gma, gogu, grag, gta, guag, guaj, guj, gwa, Gxa, qag, vag, Vagg. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ag.

+1 letter: agog, gaga, gage, gags, gang, giga, jagg.

+2 letters: agger, aggie, aggro, aging, baggy, dagga, eggar, gaged, gager, gages, gangs, gauge, gigas, gulag, jaggs, jaggy, naggy, raggy, saggy.

+3 letters: ageing, aggers, aggies, aggros, agings, bagged, bagger, baggie, bagwig, beggar, braggy, caging, craggy, daggas, dagger, daggle, degage, draggy, eggars, engage, fagged, faggot, flaggy, gadget, gaeing, gagaku, gagers, gagged, gagger, gaggle, gaging, gagman, gagmen, galago, gaming, ganged, ganger, gangly, gangue, gaping, garage, garget, gargle, gasbag, gating, gauged, gauger, gauges, gavage, gazing, geegaw, gewgaw, gingal, gobang, grange, gulags, hagged, haggis, haggle, jagged, jagger, lagged, lagger, loggia, maggot, muggar, nagged, nagger, paging, quagga, quaggy, ragbag, ragged, raggee, raggle, raging, ragtag, reggae, saggar, sagged, sagger, seggar, shaggy, slaggy, snaggy, staggy, tagged, tagger, tagrag, wagged, wagger, waggle, waggly, waggon, waging, wigwag, zagged, zigzag.