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What does lag mean?

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Adjective
  1. late
  2. (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
  3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
Noun
  1. (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
  2. (uncountable) Delay; latency.
  3. (Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
  4. (Britain, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
  5. (snooker) A method of deciding which player shall 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.
  6. One who lags; that which comes in last.
  7. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
  8. 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.
  9. A bird, the greylag.
Verb
  1. to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
  2. to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material
  3. (Britain, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
  4. (transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
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