lagverb
uk/læɡ/us/læɡ/-gg-lag verb (MOVE SLOWLY)
[ I ] to move or make progress so slowly that you are behind other people or things:
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Slow and moving slowly
- at a snail's pace idiom
- by and by idiom
- by degrees idiom
- claw your way (somewhere) idiom
- clunky
- drift
- float
- hang around
- in ones and twos idiom
- inch by inch idiom
- infiltrate
- infiltration
- labour
- mill
- sluggish
- snail
- steadily
- steady
- straggle
- struggle
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lag verb (COVER)
[ T ] to cover something with a thick layer of material in order to stop heat from escaping or to stop water from freezing:
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Covering and adding layers
- asphalt
- bestrew
- binder
- blanket
- blindfold
- carpet
- coat
- fall over sth/sb
- film
- film over
- fur
- gild
- gum sth up
- inlay
- pad
- proof
- resurface
- seal
- swathe
- whitewash
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lag verb (PRISON)
[ T ] Australian English informal to send someone to prison or to arrest someone
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Putting people in prison
- at His/Her Majesty's pleasure idiom
- bang
- bang sb up
- bar
- behind bars idiom
- bird
- hold
- immured
- imprison
- incarcerate
- internment
- jail
- lock
- pen
- restraint
- rot
- rot in jail, prison, etc. idiom
- send
- send sb down
- serve
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lagnoun [ C ]
uk/læɡ/us/læɡ/lag noun [ C ] (DELAY)
a delay between two things happening:
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Delaying and wasting time
- ado
- be on ice idiom
- bugger
- bugger about
- bugger sb about
- carry
- hold
- hold sb over
- hold sb/sth back
- hold sb/sth up
- hold up
- ice
- kick
- push
- retardation
- set sth/sb back
- shelve
- sit
- sit on sth
- spin your wheels idiom
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lag noun [ C ] (PRISONER)
UK old-fashioned informal a prisoner or a person who has often been a prisoner in the past:
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People held in prison
- captive
- cellmate
- con
- convict
- detainee
- detenu
- gaolbird
- hostage
- inmate
- internee
- jailbird
- lifer
- political prisoner
- pow
- prisoner
- prisoner of conscience
- prisoner of war