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noun
- A device to restrain speech, usually a rag in the mouth and secured there with tape, another rag that has been folded into a narrow strip, or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or a leather or rubber strap.
- (media:sp-t04.jpg, Illustration)
- An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject. Also called a gag order.
- A joke or other mischievous prank.
verb ( gags, gagging, gagged)
- To have the vomiting reflex triggered.
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- (U.S. Army slang) Smoke
- Transitive_verb, Smoke : to order a recruit to exercise until he "gags" (usually spoken in exaggeration)
- To restrain someone's speech
noun
- Any of several fish, of the family Lepisosteidae, that have long, narrow jaws; garfish
verb ( gars, garing, gart, gart)
- (archaic) To make, cause (someone to do something).
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1885: Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk " Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 15
noun ( es, pl2=goatfish)
- Any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Mullidae, that have two barbels on the chin
noun ( plural or gobies)
- Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker.
noun ( plural )
- A type of fish (scientific name Carassius auratus), typically orange-colored.
- For the children's fair we'll have a few games they can play, so that each child "wins" a as a prize.
noun ( pl=grayling, pl2=graylings)
- Any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus or specifically Thymallus thymallus, of the salmon family, having a large dorsal fin.
- A species of butterfly, Hipparchia semele, of the family Nymphalidae.
noun
- A large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of coastal surface waters in all major oceans that feeds on fish and marine mammals.
noun
- A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
noun ( plural or groupers)
- Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epiphelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.
adjective ( grubbi, er)
- dirty, Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
- Having grubs in it.
( rfex)
noun
- A short, snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
- The cry of a pig when it makes its snorting cry.
- A family of Perciformes fish of the family Haemulidae
- (Army and United States Marine Corps slang) An infantry soldier. (From the sound he presumably makes when shoulder
- Verb, shouldering a pack
- Noun, pack before starting a road march.)
verb
- Frequentative: gruntle
- (intransitive) Of a person: To make a grunt or grunts.
- (intransitive) Of a pig: To make a grunt or grunts.
noun
- A small freshwater fish, Gobio gobio, that is native to Europe.
noun ( guppi, es)
- A tiny freshwater fish, Poecilia reticulata, popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males.
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Fred kept a tank of guppies by the windowsill.
- By extension, any tiny fish.
- Throw that one back; it"s just a guppy!
noun ( plural or gurnards)
- Any of various marine fish of the family Triglidae, that have a large armored head and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom.
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