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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