Betekenis van gag In het Nederlands

• 0 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:

  • Her hands and feet were tied and a gag placed over her mouth.

• 1 a joke or funny story, especially one told by a comedian (= person whose job is to make people laugh):

  • I did a few opening gags about the band that had played before me.

• 2 to experience the sudden uncomfortable feeling of tightness in the throat and stomach that makes you feel like you are going to vomit:

  • Just the smell of liver cooking makes me gag.

  • I tried my best to eat it but the meat was so fatty I gagged on it.

• 3 to put a gag on someone's mouth:

  • He was bound and gagged and left in a cell for three days.

  • The media has obviously been gagged because nothing has been reported.

• 4 to be very eager to do something:

  • I was gagging for a pint of cold lager.

• 5 a piece of cloth that is put over or in a person’s mouth to stop the person from speaking, shouting, or calling for help:

  • The thieves tied him to a chair and put a gag over his mouth.

• 6 a joke, or an amusing trick:

  • He used to write gags for a talk-show host.

• 7 to experience the sudden, uncomfortable feeling in the throat and stomach that makes you feel that you are going to vomit:

  • The smell of burning rubber made him gag.

• 8 to put a piece of cloth over or in a person's mouth to stop the person from speaking, shouting, or calling for help:

  • He was left bound and gagged until the next morning.