- joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape - 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 hisown jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"
--1 is a kind of wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness
--1 has parts: punch line, laugh line, gag line, tag line
--1 has particulars:Derived form: verb gag4 - gag, muzzle - restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting
--2 is a kind of restraint, constraint
Derived forms: verb gag3, verb gag1
- gag, muzzle - prevent from speaking out; "The press was gagged"
--1 is one way to hush, quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun gag2
They want to gag the prisoners
- choke, gag, fret - be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat"
--2 is one way to compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- gag, muzzle - tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them; "The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair"
--3 is one way to tie, bind
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun gag2
Somebody ----s something
- gag, quip - make jokes or quips; "The students were gagging during dinner"
--4 is one way to joke, jest
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun gag1
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- gag, choke, strangle, suffocate - struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
--5 is one way to suffer, hurt
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s PP
- gag, choke - cause to retch or choke
--6 is one way to sicken
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
- gag, heave, retch - make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s