Gag
A gag is usually an item or device designed to prevent speech, often as a restraint device to stop the subject from calling for help and keep its wearer silent. This is usually done by blocking the mouth, partially or completely, or attemptin ...
is a device designed to prevent speech.
Gag or the acronym GAG may also refer to:
Humor
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Gag cartoon
A gag cartoon (also panel cartoon, single-panel cartoon, or gag panel) is most often a single-panel cartoon, usually including a caption beneath the drawing. A pantomime cartoon carries no caption. In some cases, dialogue may appear in speech b ...
, a one-panel comic that is usually intended to have ridiculous happenings
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Yonkoma
, a comic strip format, generally consists of gag comic strips within four panels of equal size ordered from top to bottom. They also sometimes run right-to-left horizontally or use a hybrid 2×2 style, depending on the layout requirements of ...
, a four panel form of Japanese gag comic strip
*Gag gift, an informal term for a
practical joke device
A practical joke device is a prop or toy intended to confuse, frighten, or amuse individuals as a prank. Often, these objects are harmless facsimiles of disgusting or terrifying objects, such as vomit or spilled nail polish. In other instances, t ...
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Visual gag
In comedy, a visual gag or sight gag is anything which conveys its humour visually, often without words being used at all. The gag may involve a physical impossibility or an unexpected occurrence. The humor is caused by alternative interpretation ...
, a comedian's term for a joke, a comedic sketch or routine, or the visible effect of a magical illusion
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Running gag
A running gag, or running joke, is a literary device that takes the form of an amusing joke or a comical reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other form of storytelling. Though they are similar, catchphrases are not ...
, a literary device that repeats in a certain work of literature
Legal
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Gag order
A gag order (also known as a gagging order or suppression order) is an order, typically a legal order by a court or government, restricting information or comment from being made public or passed onto any unauthorized third party. The phrase may ...
, a writ or court order taken out with an intent to prevent information or comment from being made public
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Gag rule
A gag rule is a rule that limits or forbids the raising, consideration, or discussion of a particular topic, often but not always by members of a legislative or decision-making body. A famous example of gag rules is the series of rules concernin ...
, a part of court proceedings and congressional proceedings
Physical objects
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Gag (BDSM)
A gag is a device used in bondage (sexual), sexual bondage and BDSM sexual roleplay, roleplay. Gags are usually associated with roleplays involving bondage, but that is not necessarily the case. The person who wears the gag is regarded as the b ...
, used in BDSM activities
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Gag bit
The gag bit is a type of bit for a horse. Because the cheek piece and reins attach to different rings (instead of freely moving on the same ring, like in a snaffle bit) there is leverage action. Severity of leverage action depends on where th ...
, a type of bit used for strong horses
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Gag (medical device) 300px, Jennings gag
In the context of surgery or dental surgery, a gag is a device used to hold the patient's mouth open when working in the oral cavity, or to force the mouth open when it cannot open naturally because of forward dislocation of ...
, a device used by dentists, surgeons and veterinarians to hold the patient's mouth open
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Jennings gag 300px, Jennings gag
In the context of surgery or dental surgery, a gag is a device used to hold the patient's mouth open when working in the oral cavity, or to force the mouth open when it cannot open naturally because of forward dislocation of t ...
, a form of medical gag
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Whitehead gag 300px, Jennings gag
In the context of surgery or dental surgery, a gag is a device used to hold the patient's mouth open when working in the oral cavity, or to force the mouth open when it cannot open naturally because of forward dislocation of the ...
, a form of medical gag
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Hallam gag, a form of medical gag
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Wind gag, a woolly windscreen put round a microphone to stop it from picking up wind noise
Biology
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Gag reflex The pharyngeal reflex or gag reflex is a reflex muscular contraction of the back of the throat, evoked by touching the roof of the mouth, the back of the tongue, the area around the tonsils, the uvula, and the back of the throat. It, along with othe ...
, the feeling of choking or accompanying involuntary muscular contractions in the throat
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Glycosaminoglycan
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) or mucopolysaccharides are long, linear polysaccharides consisting of repeating disaccharide units (i.e. two-sugar units). The repeating two-sugar unit consists of a uronic sugar and an amino sugar, except in the case ...
(GAG), a polysaccharide that is part of connective tissue
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Group-specific antigen
Group-specific antigen, or gag, is the polyprotein that contains the core structural proteins of an Ortervirus (except ''Caulimoviridae''). It was named as such because scientists used to believe it was antigenic. Now it is known that it makes up ...
, the genetic material that codes for the core structural proteins of a retrovirus
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Gag grouper
''Mycteroperca microlepis'', the gag, gag grouper, velvet rockfish or charcoal belly, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and ...
, a species of fish
* GAG, one of two codons for
glutamic acid
Glutamic acid (symbol Glu or E; the ionic form is known as glutamate) is an α-amino acid that is used by almost all living beings in the biosynthesis of proteins. It is a non-essential nutrient for humans, meaning that the human body can synt ...
People
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Anton Gag
Anton Gag (12 June 1859 – 22 May 1908) was a Sudeten Germans, Sudeten-American Painting, painter and photography, studio photographer known for his portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and murals. Immigrating to the United States at the age of 14 ...
(1859–1908), painter
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Andrei Gag (born 1991), Romanian athlete
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Wanda Gág
Wanda Hazel Gág ( ; March 11, 1893 – June 27, 1946) was an American artist, author, translator, and illustrator. She is best known for writing and illustrating the children's book ''Millions of Cats'', the oldest American picture book still i ...
(1893–1946), children's book writer and illustrator
Other uses
*gag, the ISO 639 code for the
Gagauz language
Gagauz (, ) is a Turkic language spoken by the Gagauz people of Moldova, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey and it is an official language of the Autonomous Region of Gagauzia in Moldova. Gagauz belongs to the Oghuz branch of Turkic languages, alongsi ...
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Gag Island
Gag Island is one of the Raja Ampat Islands in the Indonesian province of Southwest Papua. It is situated some 150 kilometres west of Sorong, the provincial capital.
The island's population is approximately 450 living at Gambier Bay. This com ...
, one of the Raja Ampat Islands in Indonesia
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''Gag'' (album), a 1984 album by Fad Gadget
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''Gagged'' (EP), a 2015 EP by Violet Chachki
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Go-Ahead Group
The Go-Ahead Group plc is a passenger transport company based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, with operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Singapore, Norway and Germany. Formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in 2022 it was purchased ...
, a British transport company
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Gorniczy Agregat Gasniczy The Górniczy Agregat Gaśniczy (GAG) is a jet engine inertisation unit developed for use in mines, controlling and suppressing coal seam fires and neutralising firedamp situations. The unit was designed in Poland in the 1970s, its name roughly tra ...
(GAG), a jet engine unit used in mine fires
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Grenfell Action Group, a residents' association at Grenfell Tower, London which caught fire
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, a school in Estonia
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