Definitions for gags

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IPA: /gæg/

Gags is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in gags (aggs).

Definitions for gags

noun

1. something put into a person's mouth to prevent speech, shouting, etc.
2. any forced or arbitrary suppression of freedom of speech.
3. a surgical instrument for holding the jaws open.
4. Metalworking. a shaped block of steel used with a press to straighten or bend a bar, rail, etc.
5. a joke, especially one introduced into a script or an actor's part.
6. any contrived piece of wordplay or horseplay.
7. a serranid game fish, Mycteroperca microlepsis, found along the southeastern coast of the U.S.
8. any of several related fishes.

verb (used with object)

1. to stop up the mouth of (a person) by putting something in it, thus preventing speech, shouts, etc.
2. to restrain by force or authority from freedom of speech; silence.
3. to fasten open the jaws of, as in surgical operations.
4. to cause to retch or choke.
5. Metalworking. to straighten or bend (a bar, rail, etc.) with a gag.
6. to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).

verb (used without object)

1. to retch or choke.
2. to tell jokes or make amusing remarks.
3. to introduce gags in acting.
4. to play on another's credulity, as by telling false stories.

Origin of gags

1400-50; late Middle English gaggen to suffocate; perhaps imitative of the sound made in choking

Examples for gags

But when a serial sex predator is playing fanboy, the gag reflex kicks in.

In the convention, Washington scrupulously followed the gag rule, so his thoughts on the proceedings are somewhat unknown.

"I don't know," the Viceroy said shortly, working the gag out of his mouth.

The poison story had been a gag to make him think he had outwitted Domber.

We bind and gag the Duke, and we convey him with all speed and quiet out of Bridgwater.

There's no excuse for your talking such stuff as that, and you're not going to do it, if I have to gag you!

The glittering fisherlady could not bind and gag the bait and drop her into his mouth.

They obtained a gag order against the defendant and his lawyers restricting what they could say about the case for several months.

“We blew up an entire planet, just for a Doofenshmirtz gag,” laughs Povenmire.

And bonus points for the school bus that burst into flames with the comic timing of a Simpsons gag.