lagged

Verb

lag (third-person singular simple present lags, present participle lagging, simple past and past participle lagged)

1. To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
   • Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe.1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book), Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
2. To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
   • Spun glass mattresses are used for lagging the boiler, which has three Ross pop safety valves on the front ring.1941 April, “British Locomotive Developments”, in Railway Magazine, page 173
3. (informal) To respond slowly.
   • My phone is starting to lag.
4. (UK, archaic, slang) To transport as a punishment for crime.
   • She lags us if we poach.1847, Thomas De Quincey, Secret Societies"
5. (slang) To arrest or apprehend.
   • If a fellow gave them trouble being lagged they let him have it hot and heavy in the bridewell.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 8: Laestrygonians]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 155
6. (transitive) To slacken
   • Interest in the scandal will never lag.

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