What does GAG mean?

Definitions for GAG
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. joke, gag, laugh, jest, japenoun

    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"

  2. gag, muzzleverb

    restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting

  3. gag, muzzleverb

    prevent from speaking out

    "The press was gagged"

  4. choke, gag, fretverb

    be too tight; rub or press

    "This neckband is choking the cat"

  5. gag, muzzleverb

    tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them

    "The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair"

  6. gag, quipverb

    make jokes or quips

    "The students were gagging during dinner"

  7. gag, choke, strangle, suffocateverb

    struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake

    "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"

  8. gag, chokeverb

    cause to retch or choke

  9. gag, heave, retchverb

    make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

Wiktionary

  1. gagnoun

    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. gagnoun

    An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.

  3. gagnoun

    A joke or other mischievous prank.

  4. gagnoun

    A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.

  5. gagverb

    To experience the vomiting reflex.

    He gagged when he saw the open wound.

  6. gagverb

    To smoke: to order a recruit to exercise until he "gags" (usually spoken in exaggeration).

  7. gagverb

    To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.

    The victims could not speak because the burglar had gagged them with duct tape.

  8. gagverb

    To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.

    When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.

  9. gagabbreviation

    group specific antigens

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Gagnoun

    Something put into the mouth to hinder speech or eating.

    Etymology: from the verb.

    Some, when the kids their dams too deeply drain,
    With gags and muzzles their soft mouths restrain. Dryden.

    Your woman would have run up stairs before me; but I have secured her below with a gag in her chaps. Dryden.

  2. To Gagverb

    Etymology: from gaghel, Dutch, the palate, Minshew.

    He’s out of his guard already: unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagg’d. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

    There foam’d rebellious logick, gagg’d and bound. Alexander Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. Gag

    A gag is usually an item or device designed to prevent speech, often as a restraint device to stop the subject from calling for help and keep its wearer silent. This is usually done by blocking the mouth, partially or completely, or attempting to prevent the tongue, lips, or jaw from moving in the normal patterns of speech. The more "effective" a gag appears to be, the more hazardous it is. For example duct tape is a fairly effective method of keeping a person's mouth shut but can be hazardous if the subject cannot breathe freely through the nose (for example if they have the common cold). For this reason, a gagged person should never be left alone. The use of gags is commonly depicted in soap operas and crime fiction, particularly in comics and novels. It is also often used in movies, such as Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Courts have been known to gag certain people, such as the civil rights activist Bobby Seale. This practice has been criticized as inhumane.

ChatGPT

  1. gag

    A gag is typically a joke or a humorous anecdote, often used in comedic performances. It can also refer to a practical joke or a comic set-piece in a movie or a play. In a different context, a gag can be a piece of cloth or material used to prevent a person from speaking or yelling by blocking their mouth. In legal terms, a gag order is a ruling preventing certain information from being made public.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gagverb

    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

  2. Gagverb

    to pry or hold open by means of a gag

  3. Gagverb

    to cause to heave with nausea

  4. Gagverb

    to heave with nausea; to retch

  5. Gagverb

    to introduce gags or interpolations. See Gag, n., 3

  6. Gagnoun

    something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking

  7. Gagnoun

    a mouthful that makes one retch; a choking bit; as, a gag of mutton fat

  8. Gagnoun

    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

  9. Etymology: [Prob. fr. W. cegio to choke or strangle, fr. ceg mouth, opening, entrance.]

Wikidata

  1. Gag

    A gag is usually a device designed to prevent speech, often as a restraint device to stop the subject from calling for help. This is usually done by blocking the mouth, partially or completely, or attempting to prevent the tongue, lips, or jaw from moving in the normal patterns of speech. They are often less effective in reality than in crime fiction. They carry a strong risk of killing the victim by suffocation. The more "effective" a gag appears to be, the more hazardous it is: for example, duct tape is fairly effective but is hazardous if for some reason the subject cannot breathe freely through the nose. The use of gags is commonly depicted in crime fiction, particularly in comics and novels. It it also often used in movies, such as Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Very rarely, courts have been known to gag unruly defendants; Bobby Seale was the most famous case. Occasionally a cloth over-the-mouth gag is used not to prevent speech but to keep dust and aerosols out of the lungs.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Gag

    gag, v.t. to forcibly stop the mouth: to silence: to choke up: to introduce gag into a piece:—pr.p. gag′ging; pa.p. gagged.—n. something thrust into the mouth or put over it to enforce silence, or distend the jaws during an operation: the closure applied in a debate: a mouthful which produces nausea, the fat of fresh beef boiled: (slang) an actor's interpolation: a joke or hoax.—n. Gag′ger, one who gags. [Prob. imitative of sound made in choking.]

  2. Gag

    gag, v.t. (slang) to deceive.—v.i. to practise imposture.—n. a made-up story, lie: (U.S.) a laughing-stock.

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Etymology and Origins

  1. Gag

    An actor’s interpolation of catch phrases at his own sweet will. Originally, however, gagging was a device to disconcert or stop the mouth of another actor by the unexpected employment of words not in the text of the play.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. GAG

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gag is ranked #121590 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Gag surname appeared 142 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Gag.

    89.4% or 127 total occurrences were White.
    5.6% or 8 total occurrences were Asian.
    3.5% or 5 total occurrences were Black.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of GAG in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of GAG in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of GAG in a Sentence

  1. Juan Merchan:

    Certainly, the Court would not impose a gag order at this time even if it were requested, such restraints are the most serious and least intolerable on First Amendment rights. That does apply doubly to Mr. Trump, because he is a candidate for the presidency of the United States.

  2. Steven Butler:

    Gag orders are futile in a case of global interest in the digital age, we urge Australian authorities to drop these proceedings and to re-examine the application of such suppression orders.

  3. Richard Waites:

    One of the things that I am seeing, not just in Baltimore but in other places, is an overuse of gag orders, the proper use of a gag order is to protect a party's rights of some kind. To protect information from going out to the public because it might cause problems -- I don't think that's a proper use of gag orders.

  4. Judge John Russo:

    Listen to me, if we have to, I will gag you... you will get a chance to talk, just zip it, you will get a chance to talk, I'm going to give you a chance to talk.

  5. Attorney General Bob Ferguson.The:

    Today's ruling ensures that clinics across the nation can remain open and continue to provide quality, unbiased healthcare to women, trump's' gag rule' would have jeopardized healthcare access to women across the country.

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