English Dictionary

gack

/ɡæk/

verb

(intransitive) To make a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat, such as before vomiting or while coughing, gagging, etc. / (intransitive) To vomit, throw up. / (transitive) To cough something up.

The cat gacks loudly in the middle of the night.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To make a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat, such as before vomiting or while coughing, gagging, etc.

I slipped the punch, dropped the paper, and closed my right hand around his throat. I backed him into his desk and pushed him onto his back. […] He rubbed his throat, gacked like a cat spitting up a hair ball.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To vomit, throw up.

I mean, if cheese could make me gack, you know that poop snake, coiled around that worthless pen, wasn't going to calm my jumpy stomach down.

意味（3）

(transitive) To cough something up.

It reminded me of the time Willy tried to get a whole hamburger in his mouth on a bet. […] he almost choked to death before we figured out how to do the Heimlich maneuver on him. […] finally Pete Honer said, He's turning blue, and we all just grabbed something and squeezed and he gacked it up and out. Pickles and all.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To choke (be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe)

[…] Chutsky came around and kicked the other one in the throat, so hard I could hear it crack, and he went over backward making gacking noises and clutching at his windpipe.u

意味（5）

(intransitive) To choke (experience tightness in one's throat as a result of strong emotion)

My throat made some gacking noises, though. No, no crying! Stiff lip, stiff lip, stiff lip—you got an interview! I stood in the kitchen, shaking and swallowing everything down.