lag

Short definition from Wiktionary

Adjective

1. 1
   Late.
2. 2
   Last; long-delayed.
3. 3
   Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
4. 4
   Loose (inclined to play many starting hands, including weak ones) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).

Noun

1. 1
   A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
2. 2
   Delay; latency.
3. 3
   One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
4. 4
   A prisoner, a criminal.
5. 5
   A period of imprisonment.
6. 6
   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.
7. 7
   One who lags; that which comes in last.
8. 8
   The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
9. 9
   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.
10. 10
    Clipping of lag screw.
11. 11
    A bird, the greylag.

Verb

1. 1
   To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
2. 2
   To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
3. 3
   To respond slowly.
4. 4
   To transport as a punishment for crime.
5. 5
   To arrest or apprehend.
6. 6
   To slacken