Lagger

lag ¹  (lg)

v. lagged, lag·ging, lags

v.intr.

1. To fail to keep up a pace; straggle.

2. To proceed or develop with comparative slowness: The electric current lags behind the voltage.

3. To fail, weaken, or slacken gradually; flag.

4. Games To determine the order of play in billiards by successively hitting the cue ball against the end rail, the ball rebounding closest to the head rail indicating the player to shoot first.

v.tr.

1. To cause to hang back or fall behind.

2. To shoot, throw, or pitch (a coin, for example) at a mark.

n.

1. The act, process, or condition of lagging.

2. One that lags.

3. A condition of slowness or retardation.

4.

a. The extent or duration of lagging: "He wondered darkly at how great a lag there was between his thinking and his actions" (Thomas Wolfe).

b. An interval between events or phenomena considered together.

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[From earlier lag, last person, from Middle English lag-, last (in lagmon, last man), perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]

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lagger n.

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lag ²  (lg)

n.

1. A barrel stave.

2. A strip, as of wood, that forms a part of the covering for a cylindrical object.

tr.v. lagged, lag·ging, lags

To furnish or cover with lags.

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[Probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish lagg; see leu- in Indo-European roots.]

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lag ³  (lg) Chiefly British Slang

tr.v. lagged, lag·ging, lags

1. To arrest.

2. To send to prison.

n.

1. A convict.

2. An ex-convict.

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[Origin unknown.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

lagger - someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind dawdler, laggard, trailer, poke, drone do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, bum - person who does no work; "a lazy bum" lingerer, loiterer - someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, plodder - someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach" potterer, putterer - a person who putters about straggler, strayer - someone who strays or falls behind