English Dictionary

gag

IPA（発音記号）

/ɡæɡ/

名詞

比喩的用法 古語

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. / (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.

日本語の意味

口を封じるための道具、例えば布やゴムのボールなどで構成され、口に装着して発言を抑制するもの / （法的用語）事件や話題についての議論を禁じる命令または規則

The detective carefully removed the gag from the victim's mouth to hear what she had been trying to say.

刑事は彼女が言おうとしていたことを聞くため、被害者の口にあった猿ぐつわを慎重に外した。

意味（1）

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.

Blood may seep to the back of the throat and may clot, producing an “artificial gag” of clotted blood.

意味（2）

(law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Any suppression of freedom of speech.

Civil Court blocks PM's gag on free speech

意味（4）

A joke or other mischievous prank.

We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.

意味（5）

(film) a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick

On Hacksaw Ridge, Oliver and his team of effects artisans devised gags for that spectacular flamethrower shot along with other devastating body and bullet hits, and several mortar and full-scale explosions, all aimed at communicating the reality of battle.

意味（6）

A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.

意味（7）

(archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.

L. has recorded the repugnance of the school to gags, or the fat of fresh beef boiled, and sets it down to some superstition.

意味（8）

Mycteroperca microlepis, a species of grouper.

The shallow water groups (Family Serranidae), including gag (Mycteroperca microlepis), black grouper (M. bonaci), scamp (M. phenax), and red grouper (Epinephalus morio), support major commercial and recreational fisheries in the southeastern United States.

gags （ plural ）