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"GAGS" is a plural of: gag. |
Date "GAGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Gags in theatrical parlance, are interpolations. When Hamlet directs the players to say no more "than is set down," he cautions them against indulgence in gags. (Hamlet, iii. 2.) (Dutch, gaggelen, to cackle. Compare Anglo-Saxon, geagl, the jaw.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: GAGS |
| English words defined with "GAGS": Gagger, gagman ♦ standup comedian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GAGS": DEMAGOGUE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You've just entered a room without a string of gags about how pretty you are. Want to talk about it? (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mr. Money Gags (1957) Cookin' with Gags (1955) Gags and Gals (1936) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Tameing [i.e.taming] a shrew. Or Petruchio's patent family bedstead, gags & thumscrews / Williams fecit. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Oliver Scott's Refined Negro Minstrels a happy lot of funny coons in myriad acts entrancing, new jokes and gags by black buffoons, the best of songs and dancing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ernst Volland : Gags sind mir einfach zuwenig : mit dem politischen Grafiker sprach Wolfgang Bittner. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "GAGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 87.88% of the time. "GAGS" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 87.88% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 9.09% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.03% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 66 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "GAGS": Aortic GAGs. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "GAGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Witze (funnies, jokes, joking, wits, witticisms), knebelt. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | agsgay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GAGS": gagster, gagsters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "GAGS": lallygags, lollygags. (additional references) | |
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"GAGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aggis, Aggiss, agvs, Gafsa, G'ag, Gagas, gagg, gaggs, Gago, gais, gaos, Gavs, Gbago, Gbgsa, geeggs, gg, Gga, Ggat, ggg, ggt, ghg, gigas, guag, Gyges. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GAGS" (pronounced ga"gz) |
| 3 | -a" g z | bags, brags, drags, fags, flags, jags, lags, mags, nags, rags, sags, scags, snags, tags, wags, zags. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-s" | |
-1 letter: gag, gas, sag. | |
-2 letters: ag, as. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-s" | |
+1 letter: gages, gangs, gigas, jaggs, saggy. | |
+2 letters: aggers, aggies, aggros, agings, daggas, eggars, gagers, gasbag, gauges, gulags, haggis, saggar, sagged, sagger, seggar, shaggy, slaggy, snaggy, staggy. | |
+3 letters: ageings, aggress, baggers, baggies, bagwigs, beggars, daggers, daggles, engages, faggots, gadgets, gagakus, gaggers, gaggles, gagster, galagos, gamings, gangers, gangues, garages, gargets, gargles, gasbags, gashing, gasking, gasping, gassing, gasting, gaugers, gavages, geegaws, gewgaws, gingals, gobangs, granges, haggish, haggles, isagoge, jaggers, laggers, loggats, loggias, maggots, muggars, naggers, pagings, quaggas, ragbags, raggees, raggies, raggles, ragtags, reggaes, saggard, saggars, saggers, saggier, sagging, scraggy, seggars, shagged, signage, slagged, snagged, stagged, stagger, staggie, staging, swagged, swagger, swaggie, swaging, synagog, taggers, tagrags, waggers, waggish, waggles, waggons, wigwags, zigzags. | |
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