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Gag is a device designed to prevent speech.

Gag or the acronym GAG may also refer to:

Humor

• Gag cartoon, a one-panel comic that is usually intended to have ridiculous happenings
  • Yonkoma, a four panel form of Japanese gag comic strip
• Gag gift, an informal term for a practical joke device
• Visual gag, a comedian's term for a joke, a comedic sketch or routine, or the visible effect of a magical illusion
• Running gag, a literary device that repeats in a certain work of literature

Legal

• Gag order, a writ or court order taken out with an intent to prevent information or comment from being made public
• Gag rule, a part of court proceedings and congressional proceedings

Physical objects

• Gag (BDSM), used in BDSM activities
• Gag bit, a type of bit used for strong horses
• Gag (medical device), a device used by dentists, surgeons and veterinarians to hold the patient's mouth open
  • Jennings gag, a form of medical gag
  • Whitehead gag, a form of medical gag
  • Hallam gag, a form of medical gag
• Wind gag, a woolly windscreen put round a microphone to stop it from picking up wind noise

Biology

• Gag reflex, the feeling of choking or accompanying involuntary muscular contractions in the throat
• Glycosaminoglycan (GAG), a polysaccharide that is part of connective tissue
• Group-specific antigen, the genetic material that codes for the core structural proteins of a retrovirus
• Gag grouper, a species of fish
• GAG, one of two codons for glutamic acid

People

• Anton Gag (1859–1908), painter
• Andrei Gag (born 1991), Romanian athlete
• Wanda Gág (1893–1946), children's book writer and illustrator

Music

• Gag (album), a 1984 album by Fad Gadget
• Gagged (EP), a 2015 EP by Violet Chachki
• "Gag" (song), a 2013 single by Gen Hoshino

Other uses

• gag, the ISO 639 code for the Gagauz language
• Gag Island, one of the Raja Ampat Islands in Indonesia
• Gage Airport in Gage, Oklahoma (IATA airport code GAG)
• Gays Against Groomers, an American political organization
• The Go-Ahead Group, a British transport company
• Gorniczy Agregat Gasniczy (GAG), a jet engine unit used in mine fires
• Grenfell Action Group, a residents' association at Grenfell Tower, London which caught fire
• Gustav Adolf Grammar School, a school in Estonia

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