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blackout gags

blackout gags is the plural of blackout gag.

Meaning of blackout gag

Noun

blackout gag (plural blackout gags)

  1. A rapid-fire joke in slapstick comedy.
    • In some cases, Brooks could construct an entire sequence of nothing but blackout gags, as in the prehistoric sequence of History, which depicts the first artist and first critic, the discovery of fire, the invention of music, and so forth.2015, Henry Jenkins, “Mel Brooks, Vulgar Modernism, and Comic Remediation”, in Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf, editors, A Companion to Film Comedy, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 159

Questions about blackout gags

What is blackout gags the plural of?
Blackout gags is the plural of blackout gag.

Words near blackout gags in the dictionary

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  9. blackout poem
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