British Slang: Lag

Lag [læg]

• Send to prison / hard labor / exile.
• Prisoner, convict.
• Time spent in hard labor.
• Arrest, apprehend.
• Old lag – a habitual prison visitor.

Examples:

After being wrongfully convicted, the man felt severe jail-lag after being released several weeks later.

After serving 18 days in jail being forced into an unusual routine, a person experiences jail-lag after returning to the 'free' world.

Meaning of Lag from the English-Bulgarian Dictionary:

• Fall behind, lag, dawdle (also with behind), slow down, delay, shuffle.
• Delay, lateness, falling behind, backwardness.
• Last, furthest back.
• Late, delayed.
• Covering, strip of material (for covering).
• Cover, wrap.
• Insulate (steam boiler, etc.).
• elec. Phase difference, displacement.

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