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gag1       [gag] Pronunciation Key verb, gagged, gag·ging, noun
–verb (used with object)
1.to stop up the mouth of (a person) by putting something in it, thus preventing speech, shouts, etc.
2.to restrain by force or authority from freedom of speech; silence.
3.to fasten open the jaws of, as in surgical operations.
4.to cause to retch or choke.
5.Metalworking. to straighten or bend (a bar, rail, etc.) with a gag.
–verb (used without object)
6.to retch or choke.
–noun
7.something put into a person's mouth to prevent speech, shouting, etc.
8.any forced or arbitrary suppression of freedom of speech.
9.a surgical instrument for holding the jaws open.
10.Metalworking. a shaped block of steel used with a press to straighten or bend a bar, rail, etc.
[Origin: 1400–50; late ME gaggen to suffocate; perh. imit. of the sound made in choking]

—Synonyms 2. curb, stifle, suppress.
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gag2       [gag] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, gagged, gag·ging. Informal.
–noun
1.a joke, esp. one introduced into a script or an actor's part.
2.any contrived piece of wordplay or horseplay.
–verb (used without object)
3.to tell jokes or make amusing remarks.
4.to introduce gags in acting.
5.to play on another's credulity, as by telling false stories.
–verb (used with object)
6.to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually fol. by up).
[Origin: 1770–80; perh. special use of gag1; cf. ON gagg yelp]
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gag3       [gag] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural (especially collectively) gag, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) gags.
1.a serranid game fish, Mycteroperca microlepsis, found along the southeastern coast of the U.S.
2.any of several related fishes.
[Origin: 1880–85, Americanism; orig. uncert.]
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gag       (gāg)  Pronunciation Key 
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.
    1. A practical joke.
    2. 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 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 retch or choke.
  2. To make jokes or quips.


[From Middle English gaggen, to suffocate, perhaps of imitative origin.]

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gag  (v.)
c.1440, "to choke, strangle," possibly imitative or influenced by O.N. gaghals "with head thrown back." The sense of "stop a person's mouth" is first attested 1509. The noun is 1553, from the verb.

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gag  (n.)
"joke," 1823, probably related to theatrical sense of "matter interpolated in a written piece by the actor" (1847), or from slang verbal sense of "to deceive, take in with talk" (1777), both on notion of "stuff, fill" (see gag (v.)).

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gag

noun
1. 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" [syn: joke] 
2. restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting 

verb
1. prevent from speaking out; "The press was gagged" 
2. be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat" [syn: choke] 
3. 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. make jokes or quips; "The students were gagging during dinner" 
5. struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" 
6. cause to retch or choke 
7. make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit 

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gag (gāg)
v. gagged, gag·ging, gags

  1. To choke, retch, or undergo a regurgitative spasm.
  2. To prevent from talking.
n.
An instrument adjusted between the teeth to keep the mouth from closing during operations in the mouth or throat.

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gag
Equivalent to choke, but connotes more disgust. "Hey, this is Fortran code. No wonder the C compiler gagged." See also barf.
[The Jargon File]

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gag

vi. Equivalent to choke, but connotes more disgust. "Hey, this is FORTRAN code. No wonder the C compiler gagged." See also barf.

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Gag

Gag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Gagging.] [Prob. fr. W. cegio to choke or strangle, fr. ceg mouth, opening, entrance.]

1. 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. --Marvell.

The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hood winked. --Maccaulay.

2. To pry or hold open by means of a gag.

Mouths gagged to such a wideness. --Fortescue (Transl.).

3. To cause to heave with nausea.

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Gag

Gag\, v. i. 1. To heave with nausea; to retch.

2. To introduce gags or interpolations. See Gag, n., 3. [Slang] --Cornill Mag.

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Gag

Gag\, n. 1. Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking.

2. A mouthful that makes one retch; a choking bit; as, a gag of mutton fat. --Lamb.

3. 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. [Slang]

Gag rein (Harness), a rein for drawing the bit upward in the horse's mouth.

Gag runner (Harness), a loop on the throat latch guiding the gag rein.

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GAG
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