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Lag

adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Late.

    "Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too lag to see him buried."

  2. 2
    Loose (inclined to play many starting hands, including weak ones) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).
  3. 3
    Last; long-delayed. obsolete

    "the lag end of my life"

  4. 4
    Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

    "We know your thoughts of us, that laymen are lag souls, and rubbish of remaining clay."

Noun
  1. 1
    A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency. countable

    "Although this work is now presented to the world at large, people who read through it before publication severally raised some issues that should be addressed. These resolve around the lag between the field research and the publication of the monograph, a period of rather more than two decades; the use or non-use of various academic forms of terminology, frames of reference, modes of analysis, or "theoretical paradigms"; and my use of the present tense to describe a place that is most certainly not that way now."

  2. 2
    the act of slowing down or falling behind wordnet
  3. 3
    Delay; latency. uncountable

    "Whatever the symptom, lag is a drag. But what causes it? One cause is delays in getting the data from your PC to the game server."

  4. 4
    one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket wordnet
  5. 5
    One sentenced to transportation for a crime. Ireland, UK, archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the time between one event, process, or period and another wordnet
  2. 7
    A prisoner, a criminal. Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable

    "On both these occasions I had ended up behind the bars, and you might suppose that an old lag like myself would have been getting used to it by now."

  3. 8
    A period of imprisonment. countable, slang, uncountable

    "I wasn't scared any more; the second lag wasn't easy, but I wasn't really scared of anything. […] So in my later lags, when I walked into prison everyone had heard about me."

  4. 9
    A method of deciding which player is to start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    One who lags; that which comes in last. countable, uncountable

    "the lag of all the flock"

  6. 11
    The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. countable, uncountable

    "The reſt of your Fees, O Gods, the Senators of Athens, together with the common lagge of People, what is amiſſe in them, you Gods, make ſuteable for deſtruction."

  7. 12
    A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine. countable, uncountable
  8. 13
    Clipping of lag screw. US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
  9. 14
    A bird, the greylag. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.

    "Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe."

  2. 2
    cover with lagging to prevent heat loss wordnet
  3. 3
    To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.

    "Spun glass mattresses are used for lagging the boiler, which has three Ross pop safety valves on the front ring."

  4. 4
    throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins wordnet
  5. 5
    To respond slowly. informal

    "My phone is starting to lag."

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  1. 6
    hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. wordnet
  2. 7
    To transport as a punishment for crime. UK, archaic, slang

    "She lags us if we poach."

  3. 8
    lock up or confine, in or as in a jail wordnet
  4. 9
    To arrest or apprehend. UK, archaic, slang

    ""We must get the old dear out," said Lord Roxton to Malone. "He'll be had for manslaughter if we don't. What I mean, he's not responsible - he'll sock someone and be lagged for it.""

  5. 10
    To slacken transitive

    "Interest in the scandal will never lag."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Of unknown origin. Possibly of North Germanic origin.

Etymology 2

Of unknown origin. Possibly of North Germanic origin.

Etymology 3

Of unknown origin. Possibly of North Germanic origin.

Etymology 4

Acronym of loose-aggressive.

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