ball gag

noun

A gag with a rubber or silicone sphere that is strapped into the mouth behind the teeth.

Meanings

nounball gag (plural ball gags)

plural ball gags · alternative ball-gag · alternative ballgag

  1. BDSMA gag with a rubber or silicone sphere that is strapped into the mouth behind the teeth.

    Here is a model with an alluring docile expression, wearing a ball gag. Her arms and breasts also are bound.

    1978–79, Teresa Hommel, “Images of Women in Pornography and Media”, in New York University Review of Law and Social Change, volume 8, number 2, →ISSN, page 209
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    Miserable, violated and looking like a rag doll, Marsellus, red ball gag still in his mouth, opens his watery eyes to see Butch coming up behind.

    c. 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction (screenplay); quoted in Kathryn Bond Stockton, Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer”, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2006, →DOI, →ISBN, page 6

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 口球
  • 口球 (kǒuqiú)gag with rubber or silicone sphere
German Ballknebel
  • Ballknebelgag with rubber or silicone sphere
Japanese ボールギャグ, ギャグボール
  • ボールギャグ (bōru gyagu)gag with rubber or silicone sphere
  • ギャグボール (gyagu bōru)gag with rubber or silicone sphere
Korean 볼 개그
  • 볼 개그 (bol gaegeu)gag with rubber or silicone sphere
Portuguese mordaça de bola
  • mordaça de bolagag with rubber or silicone sphere
Spanish mordaza de bola
  • mordaza de bolagag with rubber or silicone sphere
Swedish disciplinboll
  • disciplinbollgag with rubber or silicone sphere
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Chicago

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