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GAG
abbr.
glycosaminoglycan
gag
(găg)n.
1. Something forced into or put over the mouth to prevent speaking or crying out.
2. An obstacle to or a censoring of free speech.
3. A device placed in the mouth to keep it open, as in dentistry.
4.
a. A practical joke: played a gag on his roommates.
b. A comic effect or remark. See Synonyms at joke.
5. The act or an instance of gagging or choking.
v. gagged, gag·ging, gags
v.tr.
1. To prevent from speaking or crying out by using a gag.
2. To stop or restrain from exercising free speech: censorship laws aimed at gagging the press.
3. To cause to choke, retch, or undergo a regurgitative spasm.
4. To keep (the mouth) open by using a dental gag.
5. To block off or obstruct (a pipe or valve, for example).
v.intr.
1. To experience a regurgitative spasm in the throat, as from revulsion to a food or smell or in reflexive response to an introduced object.
2. To make jokes or quips: Your friends are always gagging around.
[From Middle English gaggen, to suffocate, perhaps of imitative origin.]
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gag
(ɡæɡ)vb, gags, gagging or gagged
1. (tr) to stop up (a person's mouth), esp with a piece of cloth, etc, to prevent him or her from speaking or crying out
2. (tr) to suppress or censor (free expression, information, etc)
3. to retch or cause to retch
4. (intr) to struggle for breath; choke
5. (Medicine) (tr) to hold (the jaws) of (a person or animal) apart with a surgical gag
6. (Horse Training, Riding & Manège) (tr) to apply a gag-bit to (a horse)
7. be gagging for be gagging to slang to be very eager to have or do something
n
8. a piece of cloth, rope, etc, stuffed into or tied across the mouth
9. any restraint on or suppression of information, free speech, etc
10. (Medicine) a surgical device for keeping the jaws apart, as during a tonsillectomy
11. (Parliamentary Procedure) parliamentary procedure another word for closure4
[C15 gaggen; perhaps imitative of a gasping sound]
gag
(ɡæɡ)n
1. a joke or humorous story, esp one told by a professional comedian
2. a hoax, practical joke, etc: he did it for a gag.
vb, gags, gagging or gagged
3. (intr) to tell jokes or funny stories, as comedians in nightclubs, etc
4. (Theatre) (often foll by up) theatre
a. to interpolate lines or business not in the actor's stage part, usually comic and improvised
b. to perform a stage jest, either spoken or based on movement
[C19: perhaps special use of gag1]
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gag1
(gæg)v. gagged, gag•ging,
n. v.t.
1. to stop up the mouth of (a person) by putting something in it.
2. to restrain by force or authority from free speech.
3. to hold open the jaws of, as in surgical operations.
4. to cause to retch or choke.
v.i. 5. to retch or choke.
n. 6. something put into a person's mouth to prevent speech, shouting, etc.
7. any forced or arbitrary suppression of free speech.
8. a surgical instrument for holding the jaws open.
[1400–50; late Middle English: to suffocate; perhaps imitative of the sound made in choking]
gag′ger, n.
gag2
(gæg)n., v. gagged, gag•ging. Informal. n.
1. a joke, esp. one introduced into a script.
2. any contrived piece of wordplay or horseplay.
v.i. 3. to tell jokes or make amusing remarks.
[1770–80; perhaps identical with gag1; compare Old Norse gagg yelp]
gag′ger, n.
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gag
Past participle: gagged
Gerund: gagging
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| Noun | 1. |  gag - 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 his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"humor, wit, witticism, wittiness, humour - a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter howler, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow, belly laugh, riot, scream - a joke that seems extremely funny ethnic joke - a joke at the expense of some ethnic group funny, funny remark, funny story, good story - an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line); "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny" in-joke - a joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people one-liner - a one-line joke shaggy dog story - a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness sick joke - a joke in bad taste sight gag, visual joke - a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie) |
| 2. | gag - restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting constraint, restraint - a device that retards something's motion; "the car did not have proper restraints fitted" | |
| Verb | 1. | gag - prevent from speaking out; "The press was gagged" |
| 2. | gag - be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat" | |
| 3. | gag - tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them; "The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair" | |
| 4. | gag - make jokes or quips; "The students were gagging during dinner" | |
| 5. | gag - struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" | |
| 6. | gag - cause to retch or choke sicken - make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me" | |
| 7. | gag - make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit |
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gag
1verb
be gagging for something or be gagging to do something crave, want, desire, long for, yearn for, be desperate for, cry out for (informal), thirst for, hunger for, lust after, be eager for, be dying for, would give your eyeteeth for Men everywhere are gagging for a car like this.
gag
2noun (Informal) joke, crack (slang), funny (informal), quip, pun, jest, wisecrack (informal), sally, witticism He made a gag about bald men.
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gag
nounverb
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Translations
كِمامَهيَخْتَنِقيُكَمِّم فَم، يُخْرِس
dát roubíkdusit seroubíkzacpat ústa
have opkastningsfornemmelserknebelkneble
pilavitsi
betömelnémítszájpecek
keflakeflikúgast
ギャグ
springtiužkimšti burną
aizbāzt mutineļaut runātpiespiest klusētrīstītiessprūds
náplasťzabehnúťzapchať ústa
zamašiti usta
ağzını tıkamaköğürmektıkaç
gag
[gæg]A. N
C. VI (= retch) → tener arcadas
to gag on [+ food] → atragantarse con
to be gagging for it → estar calentón or cachondo
to gag on [+ food] → atragantarse con
to be gagging for it → estar calentón or cachondo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
gag
n
(= joke) → Gag m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
gag
[gæg]2. vt (silence, prisoner) → imbavagliare
3. vi (choke) → soffocare; (retch) → avere conati di vomito
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
gag
(gӕg) – past tense, past participle gagged – verb1. to prevent (a person) talking or making a noise, by putting something in or over his mouth. The guards tied up and gagged the prisoners.
2. to choke and almost be sick.
noun something which is put in or over a person's mouth to prevent him talking or making a noise.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
gag
n. abrebocas, instrumento para mantener la boca abierta durante ciertas intervenciones quirúrgicas;
___ reflex → reflejo de arqueada.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
gag
vt (pret & pp gagged; ger gagging) (también to make [someone] —) provocar el reflejo nauseoso (p. ej., con un depresor); It gagged him..It made him gag..Le provocó el reflejo nauseoso; vi tener el reflejo nauseoso; She gagged..Tuvo el reflejo nauseoso.English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.