gagnoun [ C ]
uk/ɡæɡ/us/ɡæɡ/gag noun [ C ] (PIECE OF CLOTH)
a piece of cloth that is tied around a person's mouth or put inside it in order to stop the person from speaking, shouting, or calling for help:
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Bands, straps and strips
- band
- bar
- belt
- binding
- blindfold
- collar
- dog collar
- duct tape
- masking tape
- raffia
- ribbon
- rubber band
- Scotch tape
- strip
- stripe
- sweatband
- tape
- thong
- webbing
- wristband
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gag noun [ C ] (JOKE)
informal a joke or funny story, especially one told by a comedian (= person whose job is to make people laugh):
US a trick played on someone or an action performed to entertain other people
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Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- hysterical
- jocular
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- satirize
- tickle
- witty
- wordplay
- you've got to laugh idiom
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gagverb
uk/ɡæɡ/us/ɡæɡ/-gg-gag verb (ALMOST VOMIT)
[ I ] to experience the sudden uncomfortable feeling of tightness in the throat and stomach that makes you feel like you are going to vomit:
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Vomiting & feelings of sickness
- barf
- bring
- bring sth up
- churn
- disgorge
- honk
- morning sickness
- motion sickness
- regurgitate
- repeat
- retch
- sick
- sick as a dog idiom
- sick sth up
- spew
- spit
- spit (sth) up
- throw
- throw (sth) up
- turn sb's stomach idiom
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gag verb (PREVENT FROM TALKING)
[ T ] to put a gag on someone's mouth:
[ T often passive ] to prevent a person or organization from talking or writing about a particular subject:
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Fastening and tying
- attach
- be locked together idiom
- board sth up
- bolt
- bound
- bow 1
- buckle
- buckle up
- hobble
- ligature
- mount
- nail
- put sth up
- reef knot
- rivet
- rope
- tie
- twist tie
- tying
- yoke
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gag verb (BE EAGER)
to be very eager to do something:
to be very eager to have sex
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Excited, interested and enthusiastic
- aflutter
- agog
- all of a flutter idiom
- amped
- animated
- be as high as a kite idiom
- delirious
- exhilarated
- fanatical
- fascinated
- fasten
- fasten on/upon sth
- flushed
- flutter
- overheated
- overzealous
- passionate
- pop-eyed
- potty
- sniff
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