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say it: gag
gag is a verb and noun meaning "prevent from speaking out". It carries 9 recorded senses.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gag come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.