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   lag

   /laɡ/

   verb

   • 1. fail to keep up with another or others in movement or development: "they waited for Tim who was lagging behind"
   • 2. another term for string North American

   noun

   • 1. a period of time between one event and another: "a time lag between infection and symptoms"
   • 2. a retardation in an electric current or movement.

   Word Origin early 16th century (as a noun in the sense ‘hindmost person in a game, race, etc.’, also ‘dregs’): related to the dialect adjective lag (perhaps from a fanciful distortion of last1, or of Scandinavian origin: compare with Norwegian dialect lagga ‘go slowly’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. lagger noun

   Scrabble Points: 4

   • L

     1

   • A

     1

   • G

     2

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