Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A laggard.
- n. A narrow strip of ground.
- n. A green lane.
- n. Same as lag, n., 5.
- n. A sailor.
Wiktionary
- n. One who installs lagging.
- n. video games, informal A player who lags (has a poor or slow network connection).
- n. slang A member of support staff responsible for contacting lawyers to check how a case is progressing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A laggard.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
Etymologies
- Blend of legal and nagger (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“I am mortified at having to wait in line but TD is a lagger.”
“Just before score time, however, Margaret, a perennial point-lagger, announces: Our story is serious, because we wanted to celebrate pride, we wanted to show ourselves off.”
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“Anyone from North Carolina know what a "tally-lagger" is?”
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“Obama and Secretary Clinton nee to be pushing Climate Change internationally for a change, rahter than the US being the lagger.”
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“The opportunity is there for them to label the Republicans the Party of Superstition, the anti-science party, the Dark Ages Party, the anti-research and development party, the party of retrograde eccentrics who would change America from a world leader to a world lagger.”
“It's been a lagger for two, three years, now it's starting to come on.”
“Easier for a group to defend itself or go into lagger if attacked.”
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Land
A list of terms for land, landholdings, or words that contain the string -land-.
scabland, wheatland, cornland, slander, land-locked, dryland, riceland, clandestine, acreage, island, Iceland, Greenland and 269 more...
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A Provincial Glossary, 1787
A list of provincial English words that appear in Francis Grose's A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions. London, MDCCLXXXVII. Printed for S. Hooper, N...
tharky, velling, cadma, whinnock, caingel, giglet, gill-houter, leasing, leech-way, dellfin, underwood, dilvered and 193 more...
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hernesheir A narrow strip of ground.
An old provincial term recorded in Gloucestershire. May 2, 2011