lag
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Late.
- Last; long-delayed.
- Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
- Loose (inclined to play many starting hands, including weak ones) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).
Noun
- A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
- Delay; latency.
- One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
- A prisoner, a criminal.
- A period of imprisonment.
- 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.
- One who lags; that which comes in last.
- The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
- 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.
- Clipping of lag screw.
- A bird, the greylag.
Verb
- To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
- To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
- To respond slowly.
- To transport as a punishment for crime.
- To arrest or apprehend.
- To slacken
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