gag

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: gag

1	n v	restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting prevent from speaking out
2	v	cause to retch or choke
3	n v	a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter make jokes or quips

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: gag

“The press was gagged”

Type of:: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, silence, still
cause to be quiet or not talk

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

“he swallowed a fishbone and gagged”

Type of:: compact, compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze
squeeze or press together

“he knows a million gags”

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; belly laugh, howler, riot, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow
a joke that seems extremely funny; blue joke, blue story, dirty joke, dirty story
an indelicate joke; ethnic joke
a joke at the expense of some ethnic group; funny, funny remark, funny story, good story
an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line); in-joke
a joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people; one-liner
a one-line joke; shaggy dog story
a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness; sick joke
a joke in bad taste; sight gag, visual joke
a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie)

Type of:: humor, humour, wit, witticism, wittiness
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

“The students were gagging during dinner”

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