gag

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

gags

1.
(countable, uncountable)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.
(countable, uncountable)(law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
3.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)(figurative) Any suppression of freedom of speech.
4.
(countable, uncountable)A joke or other mischievous prank.
5.
(countable, uncountable)(film) a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick
6.
(countable, uncountable)A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
7.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.
8.
(archaic, slang, uncountable)Unscripted lines introduced by an actor into his part.
9.
(countable, uncountable)Any of species Mycteroperca microlepis of groupers.
Đồng nghĩa: gag grouper
10.
(countable, uncountable)(LGBTQ slang) A shocking or surprising thing.

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verb

V_es/s

gags

V_ing/Gerund

gagging

V_ed/pp

gagged

1.
(intransitive)To experience the vomiting reflex.
He gagged when he saw the open wound.
2.
(transitive)To cause to heave with nausea.
3.
(transitive)To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
4.
(transitive)To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
1917, Francis Gregor (translator), De Laudibus Legum Angliae, Sir John Fortescue, written 1468–1471, first published 1543. […] some have their mouths gagged to such a wideness, for a long time, whereat such quantities of water are poured in, that their bellies swell to a prodigious degree […]
5.
(figuratively, transitive)To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.
6.
(ambitransitive)To choke; to retch.
7.
(ambitransitive, obsolete, slang)To deceive (someone); to con.
8.
(transitive)(transitive, LGBTQ slang) To astonish (someone); to leave speechless.

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gag groupergag order

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The noun is from Early Modern English gagge; the verb is from Middle English gaggen. Possibly imitative or perhaps related to or influenced by Old Norse gag-háls ("with head thrown backwards"; > Norwegian dialectal gaga (bent backwards)). The intransitive sense "to retch" is from 1707. The noun is from the 16th century, figurative use (for "repression of speech") from the 1620s.