Usually means: Joke or prank causing laughter.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word gag:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. gag: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gag, gag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gag: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gag: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gag, gag: Wordnik
  7. gag: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. GAG, gag: Wiktionary
  9. gag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gag: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. GAG: Dictionary.com
  13. gag (n.), gag (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gag: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GAG, Gag (album), Gag (disambiguation), Gag (gene), Gag (medical device), Gag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gag: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gag: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gag: Rhymezone
  19. Gag (m), gag: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gag: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. GAG: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. gag: Free Dictionary
  23. gag: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. gag: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Gag (BDSM): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gag: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gag: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. gag: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Gag: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. gag: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. GAG: Acronym Finder
  3. GAG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. gag: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GAG: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gag, gag, gag: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See gagged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
noun:  (figurative) Any suppression of freedom of speech.
noun:  A joke or other mischievous prank.
noun:  (film) a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick
noun:  A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
noun:  (archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.
noun:  (archaic, slang, uncountable) Unscripted lines introduced by an actor into his part.
noun:  Mycteroperca microlepis, a species of grouper.
verb:  (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
verb:  (transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
verb:  (transitive) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To choke; to retch.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, slang) To deceive (someone); to con.
verb:  (transitive, LGBTQ slang) To astonish (someone); to leave speechless.
verb:  (intransitive, LGBTQ slang) To be at a loss for words; to be left speechless.
noun:  Abbreviation of group-specific antigen. [The genetic material that codes for the structural protein of a retrovirus.]

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