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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Nearby words

sighful, sight, sight bill, sight draft, sight for sore eyes, a, sight gag, sight rhyme, sight screen, sight unseen, sight-read, sighted

Origin of sight gag

First recorded in 1945–50

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