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nounPlural gags ɡaɡɡæɡ 1A piece of cloth put in or over a person's mouth to prevent them from speaking. they tied him up and put a gag in his mouth Example sentencesExamples - She almost squirmed but the ropes wouldn't let her, and she tried to scream but the gag prevented her.
- She tried to scream, but the gag prevented it once again.
- Jason put his gun on the bed next to her and began to unbind the ropes, but first he removed the old sock that had been stuffed into her mouth as a gag.
- She ripped the gag from his mouth and undid his hands.
- I didn't really care, and stuffed a gag in her mouth using the nearest cloth I could find.
- The strip of cloth holding the gag, once split, fell away from Ford's face.
- I saw slowly that I was staring at an Elf, I struggled once more to get the gag from my mouth, when he gently removed it and silently offered me a taste of water.
- For a final bad touch, they put a gag in her mouth.
- Then, with knife in one hand still posing a threat he arranged her scarf, shifting the material so that it hid the gag around her mouth.
- To her immense satisfaction, the gag did nothing to prevent the volume of her yelling, only muffled and garbled it.
- He threw a torch on the tent and Red tried to scream in fear but the gag prevented her.
- She was naked, her arms tightly bound behind her, a gag filling her mouth, and a blindfold over her eyes.
- Up to 200 members of the Stop the War coalition, CND and other groups symbolically put gags over their mouths as part of the unauthorised protest, which the police had warned would now be illegal.
- A cloth gag was put over his mouth to stop him from speaking.
- The city's municipal HQ was surrounded by a large group of people who had volunteered to have gags placed in their mouths while their hands were tied behind their backs.
- ‘Why didn't I get here sooner,’ she said as she gently started to untie the gag from his mouth.
- Cindy quickly freed the gag from Maria's mouth as Jordan removed her blindfold.
- He was standing, shackled to the top of a door frame with a gag in his mouth at the time he died.
- Her wrists were hooked to a D ring on the back of her collar, and for once she didn't have a gag filling her mouth.
- Amy is tied down to a table with a gag in her mouth.
- 1.1 A restriction on dissemination of information.
every contract contains a self-signed gag Example sentencesExamples - However, the latest gag prevents users from discussing any aspect of the program.
- The government's official gag on further public discussion of the principal's death only adds to the impression that this is not an isolated case.
- Tim the Rev had picked up on the notion that the codification is intended to put a political gag on charities, and Peter said that the draft legislation had no such intent.
2A device for keeping the patient's mouth open during a dental or surgical operation. Example sentencesExamples - He or she preps the neonate's face and mouth and also the mouth gag in a circular manner, proceeding from the incision line circumferentially outward.
verbgagged, gags, gagging ɡaɡɡæɡ 1with object Put a gag on (someone) she was bound and gagged by robbers Example sentencesExamples - Personally I'd like to see him go the whole hog - bind him, gag him and chuck him into the Thames wearing a pair of concrete boots.
- They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard.
- He was gagged and beaten and the raiders then went upstairs where they tied up the second brother who was also badly beaten.
- A postmaster bound and gagged by two masked robbers during a dawn raid on his village store has told police he wants to quit his job.
- She was gagged and bound with a washing line before being dumped in a water-filled drainage ditch.
- They bound his hands and legs with clothing, gagged him, and took HK $500, a mobile phone, his ID card and three bank cards.
- They bound and gagged the couple and put them in a room, before escaping with valuables worth around Rs 1 lakh.
- As she shouted he tried to gag her with the belt from her dressing gown.
- Three men from the crew lurched forward, bounding and gagging the man tightly.
- Two walked away but the other entered and gagged the pensioner by pushing a handkerchief into his mouth then stole his wallet and cash before running away, taking the handkerchief with him.
- She said the two men broke into the house, blindfolded and gagged her before tying up her arms and legs.
- The man used tights and stockings to bind and gag his victims and it is believed the perverted attacker had a bizarre shoe fetish as in all but one of the cases the victims' shoes were stolen.
- Yolanda passes out in the elevator, forcing Lana to drag her into the penthouse where she gags her and ties her to the bed.
- They blindfolded and gagged her and tied her arms and legs.
- Howard broke into her home, bound and gagged her and repeatedly attacked her over a period of hours.
- A pair of robbers wielding a gun and a knife bound and gagged a Carshalton pensioner in his own home in a premeditated crime described as ‘completely horrific’ by police.
- But their vitriol genuinely surprised me, especially since the prospect of gagging us with lace and pulling our hair really seemed to turn them on.
- Detectives were today hunting an armed gang who bound and gagged a couple before stealing a large amount of cash.
- Russian prosecutors are investigating allegations that hospital staff in Yekaterinburg, Russia, gagged babies because they did not want to hear them crying.
Synonyms stop up, block, plug, clog, stifle, smother, muffle put a gag on, silence, hush, quiet - 1.1 Prevent (someone) from speaking freely or disseminating information.
the government is trying to gag its critics Example sentencesExamples - Campaigners accuse the government of encouraging the practice while gagging its critics.
- Remember this is an organisation that gags its critics, has hired a private detective to look into me, and has consistently misled its members.
- This is just an attempt to gag me and stop me from doing my job on behalf of the ratepayers of Manukau City.
- But a Chairman who gags his directors betrays a nervous and patently vulnerable company.
- Public service employees are also gagged by Oath from public comment on any government matter to which they have knowledge.
- This law has been thus named because its sole purpose is to gag ordinary citizens during an election.
- The presidential ordinance gagging the press came two days before parliament was to meet.
- He said, you know, ultimately, I think there is something here and so I'm going to gag Michael with respect to the information that he has.
- He called for a moratorium on the new rules and a detailed explanation from the Law Society about what it was seeking to achieve by gagging its members.
- So we did a lot of outreach, I believe, the people that support reform such as myself, but we didn't want to gag the American people.
- Even though Downing Street and the Treasury would try to gag him, he felt compelled to speak out about his governing passion.
- ‘I don't think we are gagging anybody,’ said a spokesman.
- The mayor said he had no intentions of gagging any councillor or preventing them from expressing their own views.
- Most of the nurses and doctors who have spoken out have been forced to remain anonymous, gagged by an official order from department heads not to speak to the media.
- A court has gagged the Wandsworth Guardian to prevent it naming two boys accused of terrorising and vandalising their neighbourhood.
- As part of the NSL, those served with the document are gagged and prohibited from disclosing that they have even been served.
- He wouldn't go any further, saying that it would jeopardize the case and it could gag him.
- He says the information is better public, but came to a settlement on Friday which effectively gags him from saying anything more.
- Jane has signed a confidentiality agreement, which gags her from talking about the night.
- The London High Court made an order gagging the researcher from disclosing court testimony about his research into PIN number security.
Synonyms silence, muzzle, mute, muffle, stifle, smother, strangle, subdue, suppress, repress censor, curb, check, restrain, fetter, shackle, restrict, limit
2no object Choke or retch. Example sentencesExamples - The first few breaths overwhelmed her and she gagged on the foul air.
- He gagged on the sulfur, coughing and sputtering as the smoke stung his throat and lungs.
- She gagged on her bite of apple and threw the core over her shoulder at him.
- When I broke the seal on my mask, I nearly gagged on the fuel fumes.
- I screamed with pain and gagged on air, being forced out of me.
- Some of her classmates almost gagged on the smell.
- Hastily I gulped down the rest of the bite of meat and gagged on it.
- I was actually pleasant sort of but then his companion came in to view and I nearly gagged on my own spit.
- Her voice sounded rough and cracked when she spoke, as if she'd scraped her throat with sandpaper and gagged on broken glass.
- She gagged on them for a few minutes and made gurgling noises into the phone as she lifted her face towards the ceiling in hopes of getting the pills down her throat easier.
- She'd been right, he realized instantly, as he almost gagged on the first bite.
- He poured the liquid from the bottle down her throat, closing her mouth as she coughed and gagged on it.
- I'd gone outside to have a cigarette in the morning and gagged on my smoke.
- Billy nearly gagged on his olive, but he knocked the drink back and motioned for another one.
- Her heart jumped up to her throat, and she nearly gagged on her granola bar.
- But there's somebody who either gagged on a spoon, or somebody was choking on a fork, or somebody stuck something too far in the back of their throat.
- Frank took another sip of his coffee as Marco practically gagged on his as I said this.
- Anyway, I returned to my room, and gagged on the ferocious stench.
- One poor guy gagged on his retainer and his pal thumped him on the back.
- The uniform stifled Danny and he gagged on the stale stench.
Synonyms retch, heave, dry-heave, convulse, almost vomit, feel nauseous choke, gasp, struggle for breath, fight for air informal keck 3be gagging forBritish informal Be very eager to have or do (something) I'm absolutely gagging for a pint we'll be sitting in front of the TV at five to seven next Saturday evening, gagging for the next instalment Example sentencesExamples - They'll be gagging for the opportunity to play live in front of a crowd.
- Around 1300 + steps and three hours or so later, we were back where started from and absolutely gagging for a beer.
- As soon as the girls had gone everyone was gagging for more.
- The flight was only two and a quarter hours, which was great, but at that stage, after the multiple beverages, we were like camels in the desert gagging for a cup of tea.
- I'm gagging for the next episode.
- Once you smell the hops and barley cooking in the mash tuns, or whatever brewers do, you'll be gagging for a pint of the finished product.
- I was gagging for a ciggy so I lit one up.
- Could it be that, beneath their veneer of unworldly innocence, they're all secretly gagging for it?
- The ending leaves you gagging for a sequel and already there are rumours that the film is part of a trilogy.
- It also looks wonderful, and if you like wine, you'll be gagging for a glass by the end!
- It will have earned its place as a television classic, in the same way This Life did, while leaving its audience gagging for more.
- We got to the bar, I was gagging for a beer, as I hadn't time for one at the club.
Origin Middle English: perhaps related to Old Norse gagháls 'with the neck thrown back', or imitative of a person choking. Rhymes bag, blag, brag, Bragg, crag, dag, drag, flag, hag, jag, lag, mag, nag, quag, rag, sag, scrag, slag, snag, sprag, stag, swag, tag, wag, zag nounPlural gags ɡaɡɡæɡ A joke or an amusing story, especially one forming part of a comedian's act or in a film. films that goad audiences into laughing at the most tasteless of gags Example sentencesExamples - I think everyone will love it - there are jokes and gags in it that both young and old will enjoy, as well as some great songs and general all round fun.
- Bearing in mind the other critical sin of giving away some of the best puns and visual gags in film history to readers who may not have seen them, all I will say is that the answer is yes, a thousand times yes.
- It could have something to do with the lack of anything new or novel (it's sad when a comedian is already recycling gags and skits after such a minor canon of creation).
- Third, even an amusing gag distracts the reader from your main point.
- They poke fun at subjects - their films include gags about disabilities, among other things - while seeming to avoid cruelty.
- In fact, there are very few gags in the film at all.
- It's just like having a plasma widescreen except there's someone standing in front of it cracking rather amusing gags.
- York's newest comedy club takes its name from the oldest gag in the joke book.
- Today, sex is just a gag, a joke expressed in far more ‘juvenile’ terms.
- The film's racial stereotype gags might be offensive if they weren't so shamelessly dumb and done to death.
- This is one of those commentary tracks that won't entertain with funny stories or gags, but is certainly packed with informative tidbits on the making of the film.
- The movie is a veritable mine of in-jokes, strange gags, and funny one-liners.
- There's a running gag in the film about the way he hires Mexican, Jewish, Spanish and Indian musicians to be sad on America's behalf.
- Packed with rapid-fire jokes, visual gags and an infectious exuberance, the character's big-screen debut is film comedy at its silliest and most inspired.
- We're looking for jokes, gags, funny stories, pictures, whatever, but they must be your original work.
- The music is just as loud as in the previous films, and the gags and one-liners are more often lame than funny.
- I've never seen a short film this jam-packed with gags, and you don't have to be an intellectual to get any of them - only a sci-fi geek.
- Trust me when I say there is nothing in this film beyond the stunts (to be fair, there is an amusing gag involving a pair of women's underwear).
- That doesn't mean there aren't some fine gags in the film.
- One of the film's funniest jokes is a running gag involving a car radio stuck on a 1980s soft rock revival station.
Synonyms joke, jest, witticism, quip, pun, play on words, double entendre, funny remark, witty remark flash of wit, rejoinder, sally French bon mot informal crack, wisecrack, one-liner, funny, comeback
verbgagged, gags, gagging ɡaɡɡæɡ [no object]Tell jokes. they gagged about their sexual problems
Origin Mid 19th century (originally theatrical slang): of unknown origin. nounɡaɡɡæɡ 1A piece of cloth put in or over a person's mouth to prevent them from speaking or crying out. Example sentencesExamples - For a final bad touch, they put a gag in her mouth.
- I didn't really care, and stuffed a gag in her mouth using the nearest cloth I could find.
- She ripped the gag from his mouth and undid his hands.
- She was naked, her arms tightly bound behind her, a gag filling her mouth, and a blindfold over her eyes.
- The city's municipal HQ was surrounded by a large group of people who had volunteered to have gags placed in their mouths while their hands were tied behind their backs.
- To her immense satisfaction, the gag did nothing to prevent the volume of her yelling, only muffled and garbled it.
- Jason put his gun on the bed next to her and began to unbind the ropes, but first he removed the old sock that had been stuffed into her mouth as a gag.
- He was standing, shackled to the top of a door frame with a gag in his mouth at the time he died.
- Amy is tied down to a table with a gag in her mouth.
- She almost squirmed but the ropes wouldn't let her, and she tried to scream but the gag prevented her.
- Then, with knife in one hand still posing a threat he arranged her scarf, shifting the material so that it hid the gag around her mouth.
- Her wrists were hooked to a D ring on the back of her collar, and for once she didn't have a gag filling her mouth.
- The strip of cloth holding the gag, once split, fell away from Ford's face.
- He threw a torch on the tent and Red tried to scream in fear but the gag prevented her.
- A cloth gag was put over his mouth to stop him from speaking.
- I saw slowly that I was staring at an Elf, I struggled once more to get the gag from my mouth, when he gently removed it and silently offered me a taste of water.
- Cindy quickly freed the gag from Maria's mouth as Jordan removed her blindfold.
- ‘Why didn't I get here sooner,’ she said as she gently started to untie the gag from his mouth.
- She tried to scream, but the gag prevented it once again.
- Up to 200 members of the Stop the War coalition, CND and other groups symbolically put gags over their mouths as part of the unauthorised protest, which the police had warned would now be illegal.
- 1.1 A restriction on freedom of speech or dissemination of information.
they lobbied hard for a gag on doctors and nurses Example sentencesExamples - However, the latest gag prevents users from discussing any aspect of the program.
- The government's official gag on further public discussion of the principal's death only adds to the impression that this is not an isolated case.
- Tim the Rev had picked up on the notion that the codification is intended to put a political gag on charities, and Peter said that the draft legislation had no such intent.
2A device for keeping the patient's mouth open during a dental or surgical operation. Example sentencesExamples - He or she preps the neonate's face and mouth and also the mouth gag in a circular manner, proceeding from the incision line circumferentially outward.
verbɡaɡɡæɡ 1with object Put a gag on (someone) she was bound and gagged by robbers in her home Example sentencesExamples - He was gagged and beaten and the raiders then went upstairs where they tied up the second brother who was also badly beaten.
- As she shouted he tried to gag her with the belt from her dressing gown.
- Howard broke into her home, bound and gagged her and repeatedly attacked her over a period of hours.
- Detectives were today hunting an armed gang who bound and gagged a couple before stealing a large amount of cash.
- But their vitriol genuinely surprised me, especially since the prospect of gagging us with lace and pulling our hair really seemed to turn them on.
- Two walked away but the other entered and gagged the pensioner by pushing a handkerchief into his mouth then stole his wallet and cash before running away, taking the handkerchief with him.
- They blindfolded and gagged her and tied her arms and legs.
- They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard.
- A postmaster bound and gagged by two masked robbers during a dawn raid on his village store has told police he wants to quit his job.
- Three men from the crew lurched forward, bounding and gagging the man tightly.
- Personally I'd like to see him go the whole hog - bind him, gag him and chuck him into the Thames wearing a pair of concrete boots.
- They bound his hands and legs with clothing, gagged him, and took HK $500, a mobile phone, his ID card and three bank cards.
- They bound and gagged the couple and put them in a room, before escaping with valuables worth around Rs 1 lakh.
- The man used tights and stockings to bind and gag his victims and it is believed the perverted attacker had a bizarre shoe fetish as in all but one of the cases the victims' shoes were stolen.
- She was gagged and bound with a washing line before being dumped in a water-filled drainage ditch.
- Russian prosecutors are investigating allegations that hospital staff in Yekaterinburg, Russia, gagged babies because they did not want to hear them crying.
- A pair of robbers wielding a gun and a knife bound and gagged a Carshalton pensioner in his own home in a premeditated crime described as ‘completely horrific’ by police.
- She said the two men broke into the house, blindfolded and gagged her before tying up her arms and legs.
- Yolanda passes out in the elevator, forcing Lana to drag her into the penthouse where she gags her and ties her to the bed.
Synonyms stop up, block, plug, clog, stifle, smother, muffle - 1.1 (of a person or body with authority) prevent (someone) from speaking freely or disseminating information.
the administration is trying to gag its critics Example sentencesExamples - He called for a moratorium on the new rules and a detailed explanation from the Law Society about what it was seeking to achieve by gagging its members.
- As part of the NSL, those served with the document are gagged and prohibited from disclosing that they have even been served.
- This is just an attempt to gag me and stop me from doing my job on behalf of the ratepayers of Manukau City.
- But a Chairman who gags his directors betrays a nervous and patently vulnerable company.
- The presidential ordinance gagging the press came two days before parliament was to meet.
- Even though Downing Street and the Treasury would try to gag him, he felt compelled to speak out about his governing passion.
- He said, you know, ultimately, I think there is something here and so I'm going to gag Michael with respect to the information that he has.
- Public service employees are also gagged by Oath from public comment on any government matter to which they have knowledge.
- A court has gagged the Wandsworth Guardian to prevent it naming two boys accused of terrorising and vandalising their neighbourhood.
- He says the information is better public, but came to a settlement on Friday which effectively gags him from saying anything more.
- Most of the nurses and doctors who have spoken out have been forced to remain anonymous, gagged by an official order from department heads not to speak to the media.
- The mayor said he had no intentions of gagging any councillor or preventing them from expressing their own views.
- The London High Court made an order gagging the researcher from disclosing court testimony about his research into PIN number security.
- Campaigners accuse the government of encouraging the practice while gagging its critics.
- This law has been thus named because its sole purpose is to gag ordinary citizens during an election.
- So we did a lot of outreach, I believe, the people that support reform such as myself, but we didn't want to gag the American people.
- ‘I don't think we are gagging anybody,’ said a spokesman.
- He wouldn't go any further, saying that it would jeopardize the case and it could gag him.
- Remember this is an organisation that gags its critics, has hired a private detective to look into me, and has consistently misled its members.
- Jane has signed a confidentiality agreement, which gags her from talking about the night.
Synonyms silence, muzzle, mute, muffle, stifle, smother, strangle, subdue, suppress, repress
2no object Choke or retch. he gagged on the sourness of the wine Example sentencesExamples - I'd gone outside to have a cigarette in the morning and gagged on my smoke.
- Her heart jumped up to her throat, and she nearly gagged on her granola bar.
- Anyway, I returned to my room, and gagged on the ferocious stench.
- She gagged on her bite of apple and threw the core over her shoulder at him.
- But there's somebody who either gagged on a spoon, or somebody was choking on a fork, or somebody stuck something too far in the back of their throat.
- Frank took another sip of his coffee as Marco practically gagged on his as I said this.
- When I broke the seal on my mask, I nearly gagged on the fuel fumes.
- I was actually pleasant sort of but then his companion came in to view and I nearly gagged on my own spit.
- She gagged on them for a few minutes and made gurgling noises into the phone as she lifted her face towards the ceiling in hopes of getting the pills down her throat easier.
- The first few breaths overwhelmed her and she gagged on the foul air.
- Her voice sounded rough and cracked when she spoke, as if she'd scraped her throat with sandpaper and gagged on broken glass.
- He gagged on the sulfur, coughing and sputtering as the smoke stung his throat and lungs.
- Hastily I gulped down the rest of the bite of meat and gagged on it.
- Some of her classmates almost gagged on the smell.
- I screamed with pain and gagged on air, being forced out of me.
- The uniform stifled Danny and he gagged on the stale stench.
- She'd been right, he realized instantly, as he almost gagged on the first bite.
- One poor guy gagged on his retainer and his pal thumped him on the back.
- He poured the liquid from the bottle down her throat, closing her mouth as she coughed and gagged on it.
- Billy nearly gagged on his olive, but he knocked the drink back and motioned for another one.
Synonyms retch, heave, dry-heave, convulse, almost vomit, feel nauseous
Origin Middle English: perhaps related to Old Norse gagháls ‘with the neck thrown back’, or imitative of a person choking. nounɡaɡɡæɡ A joke or an amusing story or scene, especially one forming part of a comedian's act or in a film or play. films that goad audiences into laughing at the most tasteless of gags Example sentencesExamples - In fact, there are very few gags in the film at all.
- Bearing in mind the other critical sin of giving away some of the best puns and visual gags in film history to readers who may not have seen them, all I will say is that the answer is yes, a thousand times yes.
- There's a running gag in the film about the way he hires Mexican, Jewish, Spanish and Indian musicians to be sad on America's behalf.
- That doesn't mean there aren't some fine gags in the film.
- We're looking for jokes, gags, funny stories, pictures, whatever, but they must be your original work.
- Trust me when I say there is nothing in this film beyond the stunts (to be fair, there is an amusing gag involving a pair of women's underwear).
- They poke fun at subjects - their films include gags about disabilities, among other things - while seeming to avoid cruelty.
- Packed with rapid-fire jokes, visual gags and an infectious exuberance, the character's big-screen debut is film comedy at its silliest and most inspired.
- York's newest comedy club takes its name from the oldest gag in the joke book.
- It could have something to do with the lack of anything new or novel (it's sad when a comedian is already recycling gags and skits after such a minor canon of creation).
- This is one of those commentary tracks that won't entertain with funny stories or gags, but is certainly packed with informative tidbits on the making of the film.
- I think everyone will love it - there are jokes and gags in it that both young and old will enjoy, as well as some great songs and general all round fun.
- It's just like having a plasma widescreen except there's someone standing in front of it cracking rather amusing gags.
- One of the film's funniest jokes is a running gag involving a car radio stuck on a 1980s soft rock revival station.
- The film's racial stereotype gags might be offensive if they weren't so shamelessly dumb and done to death.
- Today, sex is just a gag, a joke expressed in far more ‘juvenile’ terms.
- Third, even an amusing gag distracts the reader from your main point.
- The movie is a veritable mine of in-jokes, strange gags, and funny one-liners.
- I've never seen a short film this jam-packed with gags, and you don't have to be an intellectual to get any of them - only a sci-fi geek.
- The music is just as loud as in the previous films, and the gags and one-liners are more often lame than funny.
Synonyms joke, jest, witticism, quip, pun, play on words, double entendre, funny remark, witty remark
verbɡaɡɡæɡ [no object]Tell jokes. they gagged about their sexual problems
Origin Mid 19th century (originally theatrical slang): of unknown origin. |