Chokes on jokes?

Usage examples of gags.

The gags used to prevent their screaming had become more subtle and precise, the ties that secured them to the beams more elaborate and sure, their imprisonment longer, their deaths ever more horrifying.

He, too, had begun to refuse to comment as a team of officers questioned him repeatedly about the missing bones, the masks, gags and bindings, and the cuts in the bones found on the victims.

There were a couple racks of postcards, film, instant cameras, bare necessity fishing supplies at outrageous prices, Minne-tonka moccasins, rubber tomahawks for the kids, risk-kay joke gifts built around gags older than my Uncle Phil, Indian turquoise jewelry made in the Philippines.