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gag   (TTS Sound)

The noun gag has 2 senses

• joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape -- (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")


• gag, muzzle -- (restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting)

The verb gag has 7 senses

• gag, muzzle -- (prevent from speaking out; "The press was gagged")


• choke, gag, fret -- (be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat")


• gag, muzzle -- (tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them; "The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair")


• gag, quip -- (make jokes or quips; "The students were gagging during dinner")


• gag, choke, strangle, suffocate -- (struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged")


• gag, choke -- (cause to retch or choke)


• gag, heave, retch -- (make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit)