lag

1. (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.Examples: "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."; "During the Second World War, for instance, the Washington Senators had a starting rotation that included four knuckleball pitchers. But, still, I think that some of that was just a generational lag."countable

2. (uncountable) Delay; latency.Examples: "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."; "When the lag is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content."; "Latency, or lag, is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming."Synonyms: latencyuncountable

3. (UK, Ireland, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.IrelandUKarchaiccountableslanguncountable

4. (UK, Ireland, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.Examples: "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."; "He sat with his great head tipped forward, scowling with a lag's sullenness, and I swear he had closed off his hearing with his thinking and hadn't heard us coming. 'Father,' said Pym."IrelandUKcountableslanguncountable

5. (slang) A period of imprisonment.Examples: "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."countableslanguncountable

6. (snooker) 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.countableuncountable

1. (computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.Examples: "My phone is starting to lag."informal

2. (UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.Examples: "She lags us if we poach."UKarchaicslang

3. (UK, slang, archaic) To arrest or apprehend.Examples: ""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.""UKarchaicslang

4. (transitive) To slackenExamples: "Interest in the scandal will never lag."; "The weight would lagge thee that art wont to flye."transitive

1. (poker) Loose (inclined to play many starting hands, including weak ones) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).