gag

Noun

• restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting

• a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
  • he told a very funny joke
    
  • he knows a million gags
    
  • thanks for the laugh
    
  • he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest
    
  • even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point
    

Verb

• make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

• cause to retch or choke

• struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
  • he swallowed a fishbone and gagged
    

• make jokes or quips
  • The students were gagging during dinner
    

• tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them
  • The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair
    

• be too tight; rub or press
  • This neckband is choking the cat
    

• prevent from speaking out
  • The press was gagged
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  muzzle , joke , laugh , jest , jape , heave , retch , choke , strangle , suffocate , quip , fret