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▸ adjective: (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
▸ adjective: Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
▸ noun: (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Delay; latency.
▸ noun: (British, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
▸ noun: (British, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.
▸ noun: (slang) A period of imprisonment.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: One who lags; that which comes in last.
▸ noun: The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A bird, the greylag.
▸ verb: To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
▸ verb: To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer).
▸ verb: (computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.
▸ verb: (UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
▸ verb: (UK, slang, archaic) To arrest or apprehend.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
▸ adjective: (poker) Loose (inclined to play many starting hands, including weak ones) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).
Similar:
slowdown,
put away,
imprison,
incarcerate,
dawdle,
remand,
immure,
fall behind,
fall back,
retardation,
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