GAGS Synonyms: 148 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of gag

as in jokes

something said or done to cause laughter the movie featured a gag involving a chicken driving a car that audiences thought was hysterically funny

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as in pranks

a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke played a gag on their teammate by putting shaving cream in his hat

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verb

present tense third-person singular of gag

as in vomits

to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth the terrible smell of rotting fish made me gag

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as in chokes

to experience complete or partial blockage of the windpipe took a bite that was too large and began to gag

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as in quips

to make jokes the actor typically mugs and gags through his movies, but in his latest vehicle he plays it straight

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Recent Examples of gags

Noun

But the actors are reduced to joke machines trapped in a nonsensical nonplot, and while some of those gags yield laughs, a far greater number fall flat. —

David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026 Jokes, gags, set pieces, and even whole characters and storylines slowly get chiseled down and weeded out through development, production, and post-production. —

Entertainment Weekly, 2 June 2026 The reveal runs from players 1 through 26, leaning heavily on props and visual gags to name the squad. —

Don Riddell, CNN Money, 1 June 2026 While most of its funny moments fall into overused gags, Jonnie Park and Yvette Nicole Brown are genuine comedic gold as an adorably odd couple that shine on screen together every time. —

Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026 Co-director McKenna Harris revealed that there were a few more gags that didn’t make it into the film. —

Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 May 2026 Reaper Man, a reworking of the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday, is among the first Discworld novels to incorporate real pathos alongside the gags. —

Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026 There are gags in I Love Boosters straight out of Looney Tunes, like Corvette trying (and failing) to run out of Christie’s leaning condo building with the speed of Woody Woodpecker. —

Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 23 May 2026 The scene used one of the film’s funniest visual gags, an apartment so crazily tilted that nobody inside it could stand up straight. —

Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026

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Speaking with Stern on post-Globes Monday for an episode that aired Tuesday, Glaser shared why gags about the current political climate were absent from the show. —

Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026 Some gags land, others don’t, and the script’s sudden bursts of melancholy dependably catch you in the gut. —

Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gags

Noun

Often the jokes are tied to an upcoming holiday or event.

— Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
The Tribeca Film Festival has publicly condemned jokes made on the red carpet at the premiere of The Wedding Entertainer (The Tale of Moishe Badhan).

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 June 2026