gag

See also Gag

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æɡ

Abbreviation

gag

Wikipedia

1. group specific antigens

Noun

gag (plural gags)

1. 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.
2. (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
3. A joke or other mischievous prank.
   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, The Onion AV Club:

     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.

4. A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.

Synonyms

• (legal): gag order
• (joke): See also Wikisaurus:joke

Derived terms

• sight gag

Translations

A device to restrain speech

• Esperanto: buŝoŝtopilo (eo)
• Finnish: suukapula (fi)
• French: bâillon (fr) m
• German: Knebel (de) m

• Polish: knebel (pl) m
• Russian: кляп (ru) (kljap) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: glas-ghuib (gd) f
• Swedish: munkavle (sv) c

An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject

• Finnish: suukapulamääräys (fi)

• German: Maulkorberlass (de) m

A joke or other mischievous prank

• Finnish: vitsi (fi), pila (fi), kepponen (fi)
• German: Witz (de) m, Gag (de) m

• Japanese: ギャグ (ja) (gyagu)

A convulsion of the upper digestive tract

• French: haut-le-coeur (fr)

Verb

gag (third-person singular simple present gags, present participle gagging, simple past and past participle gagged)

1. (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.

   He gagged when he saw the open wound.

2. (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).
3. (transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, The Fate of the Artemis^[1]:

     “[…] 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.

4. (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.

Derived terms

• gag me with a spoon

Translations

To experience the vomiting reflex

• Dutch: kokhalzen (nl)
• Finnish: yökätä (fi), kakistella (fi)

• French: avoir un haut-le-cœur (fr)
• German: würgen (de)

To restrain someone's speech

• Dutch: knevelen (nl)
• Finnish: suukapuloida (fi)
• French: bâillonner (fr)

• German: mundtot machen (de)
• Spanish: amordazar (es)

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Occitan

Noun

gag m (plural gags)

1. jay