sight gag
noun
a comic effect produced by visual means rather than by spoken lines, as in a play or motion picture.
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Origin of sight gag
First recorded in 1945–50
Words nearby sight gag
sighful, sight, sight bill, sight draft, sight for sore eyes, a, sight gag, sight rhyme, sight screen, sight unseen, sight-read, sighted
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