Usually means: Delays in response or progress.
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  1. lags: Merriam-Webster
  2. lags, lags, lags: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lags: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lags: Vocabulary.com
  5. Lag's, Lags, lags: Wordnik
  6. lags: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. lags: Wiktionary
  8. lags: Dictionary.com
  9. lags: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. lags: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lags: Legal dictionary
  2. lags: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lags: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lags: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. lags: Medical dictionary

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  1. LAGS: Acronym Finder
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  3. lags: Idioms

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  1. lags: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (LAG)

adjective:  Late.
adjective:  (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
adjective:  Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
noun:  (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
noun:  (uncountable) Delay; latency.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.
noun:  (slang) A period of imprisonment.
noun:  (snooker) A method of deciding which player is to start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
noun:  One who lags; that which comes in last.
noun:  The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
noun:  A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
noun:  A bird, the greylag.
verb:  To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
verb:  To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
verb:  (computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.
verb:  (UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
verb:  (UK, slang, archaic) To arrest or apprehend.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
adjective:  (poker) Loose (inclined to play many starting hands, including weak ones) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).
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