gack

Significado (Inglês)

Intj

1. A sharp, sudden sound from someone's throat while they're coughing, vomiting, gagging, etc.
2. An expression of disgust or disapproval.
3. An expression of trepidation.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat, such as before vomiting or while coughing, gagging, etc.
2. (intransitive) To do something that causes a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat.
3. (transitive) To do something that causes a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat.
4. (intransitive) To do something that causes a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat.
5. (intransitive) To do something that causes a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat.

Noun

1. (slang, uncountable) Crystal meth.
2. (slang, uncountable) Powder cocaine.

Verb

To call in response to disturbance.

Conceitos

cocaína

Sinônimos

cheng

coke

Charlie

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɡæk/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Apparently onomatopoeic and believed to have first appeared in comic strips. Compare gag (“to choke; to retch”) and hack (“to cough noisily”).
The "cocaine" and "meth" senses apparently comes from the fact that snorting the drugs often activates a person's gag reflex.