sight gag
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- noun
- /saɪt ɡæɡ/
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- Many classic cartoons rely on sight gags to create humor through visual antics instead of words.
- a funny sight gag
And it's a it's a scripted thing that involves all kinds of sight gags and crazy stunts and, and, and a story.
- And it's a it's a scripted thing that involves all kinds of sight gags and crazy stunts and, and, and a story.
- And his thing was, let's make a movie where just from top to bottom you we sight gags like something's happening.
Examples
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The sight gags are rare and usually pretty weak, so not much is lost when you cut out the video.
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Too many ridiculous sight gag jokes and not enough time spent on developing these characters doom this film.
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There are enough sight gags to keep you smirking (because honestly I'm not sure anyone would laugh out loud at this stuff), and the art is exceptional.
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The comic strip is the shortest of media genres, consisting of two or three panels of line drawings and a few words of dialogue that culminate in a sight gag, punch line, or wry observation.
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As many writers have pointed out, comic modes—irony, parody, satire, sight gags—work through quotation and reiteration.
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The comedy film features numerous sight gags that make the audience laugh without any dialogue.
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His stand-up routine included hilarious sight gags that had the crowd in stitches.
Synonyms
A joke that makes people laugh using pictures or actions
How Visual
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a joke achieved by visual means' is directly and compositionally derived from 'sight' (seeing) + 'gag' (joke), yielding the straightforward notion of a visual joke. This noun–noun compounding pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Sight gag comes from early stage shows and silent films, where the joke came from what the audience saw instead of from words. The word sight points to 'seeing' and gag means a joke, so a sight gag is a 'joke you see', like someone slipping on a banana peel.