gag
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Numbing spray dripped onto the back of my tongue, its bitter flavor making me want to gag.
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026
Or if they have, they have never gleaned even the most basic lesson from the long-running gag about Lucy, Charlie Brown and the football.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
Mariel Loveland, a singer-songwriter in New York, said one autocorrect fail has become a long-running gag among musicians.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
An uncritical viewing designates this as another “all’s well that ends well” gag.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026
So we laughed louder, we kissed longer, we tried to say smarter stuff, hesitating a second to think up the best gag.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing gag
Back-Words: Palindromes
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