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gag
noun- a manner of doing something, a practice US, 1890
- John McEnroe used that gag in every successful tennis match. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 110, 1993
- in the television and film industries, a stunt US, 1988
- — John Cann, The Stunt Guide, p. 59: “Terms and definitions”
- [He would] watch movies on cable TV, cars burning in flames, stunt men being shot off of high places–see if he could recognize the work, or how it was done if it was a new gag[.] — Elmore Leonard, Freaky Deaky, p. 179, 1988
- any artifice employed by a beggar to elicit sympathy US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 800, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- an event or activity contrived to provide amusement or excitement UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 55, 1996
- an indefinite prison sentence US
- — New York Times Magazine, p. 88, 16 March 1958
- a small group of close friends US
- — Judi Sanders, Mashing and Munching in Ames, p. 8, 1994
- a quick use of cocaine US
- — Anna Scotti and Paul Young, Buzzwords, p. 130, 1997
- in craps, a bet that the shooter will make his even-numbered point in pairs US
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 125, May 1950
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