2012, May 20, Nathan Rabin, TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job†(season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992), We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,†“A Streetcar Named Marge,†“Homer The Heretic,†“Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie†and “Mr. Plow†are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.
(intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.He gagged when he saw the open wound.
(transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
(U.S. Army, slang) To smoke: to order a recruit to exercise until he "gags" (usually spoken in exaggeration).
(transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
1905, w, w:The Case of Miss Elliott Chapter 1, “… Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. …â€
''The victims could not speak because the burglar had gagged them with duct tape.
(transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.
MacaulayThe time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked.
To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
Fortescue (translation)mouths gagged to such a wideness
