sagged off

Verb

sag off (third-person singular simple present sags off, present participle sagging off, simple past and past participle sagged off)

1. To skive; to fail to attend school when required to do so.
   • "I was in the third year at school and I was sagging off with a few of my mates. We were on a building site and two of us got arrested and given a caution. "1995, Angela Devlin, Criminal classes: offenders at school, page 109
2. To back off from an opponent against whom one is defending.
   • The defender playing the man with the ball meets him at the perimeter. The other five defenders will "sag off"their men at varying distances, which are determined by the location of the offensive players. The defender can sag only to the point where he can effectively guard his man if he were to...1978, Robert Scott, Lacrosse: Technique and Tradition, →ISBN, page 101
3. To move too far leeward when sailing on the wind.
   • The more the backstay is tightened, the less the headstay will sag off to leeward, forming a rigid and more efficient arc along the luff of the genoa while beating to weather.1982 January, Jerry Cartwright, “Cruising Seamanship”, in Motorboating & Sailing, volume 149, number 2, page 23
4. To fall in share price.
   • That was considered to be largely in sympathy with the course of the wheat market and a willingness on the part of crushers to permit quotations to sag off before according fresh support.1917, Paint, Oil and Drug Review - Volume 63, page 54
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sag, off.
   • His trousers were sagging off his legs.