sight gag

1. 1.

   a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie)

   Synonymsvisual joke

   Broaderjoke

Questions about sight gag

What does sight gag mean?

sight gag means "a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie)".

What is another word for sight gag?

Close synonyms include visual joke. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sight gag a common word?

sight gag is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.