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gag

1. Med a surgical device for keeping the jaws apart, as during a tonsillectomy

2. Parliamentary procedure another word for closure

gag - Equivalent to choke, but connotes more disgust. "Hey, this is Fortran code. No wonder the C compiler gagged." See also barf.

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