GAG
\ɡˈaɡ], \ɡˈaɡ], \ɡ_ˈa_ɡ]\
Definitions of GAG
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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make jokes or quips; "The students were gagging during dinner"
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a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at hisown jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"
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tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them; "The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair"
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prevent from speaking out; "The press was gagged"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to.
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To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
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To cause to heave with nausea.
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To heave with nausea; to retch.
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To introduce gags or interpolations. See Gag, n., 3.
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Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking.
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A mouthful that makes one retch; a choking bit; as, a gag of mutton fat.
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A speech or phrase interpolated offhand by an actor on the stage in his part as written, usually consisting of some seasonable or local allusion.
By Oddity Software
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To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to.
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To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
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To cause to heave with nausea.
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To heave with nausea; to retch.
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To introduce gags or interpolations. See Gag, n., 3.
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Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking.
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A mouthful that makes one retch; a choking bit; as, a gag of mutton fat.
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A speech or phrase interpolated offhand by an actor on the stage in his part as written, usually consisting of some seasonable or local allusion.
By Noah Webster.
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Something placed in the mouth to hinder speech.
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To stop the mouth of; silence by physical force or by law.
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To strain, as in the effort to vomit.
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Gagged.
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Gagging.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Instrument keeping jaws apart.
By William R. Warner
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To forcibly stop the mouth: to silence.
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Gagging; pa.p. gagged.
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Something thrust into the mouth or put over it to enforce silence.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To silence by force; nauseate or be nauseated.
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Any appliance for preventing utterance; any restraint upon speech.
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Something nauseating.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe