Meaning of lagger | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who or that which lags behind; a laggard.
2. A member of support staff responsible for contacting lawyers to check how a case is progressing.
   slang
3. One who installs lagging.
4. A player who lags (has a poor or slow network connection).
   informal
5. A marker used in the game of hopscotch.
6. A police informant.
   slang
7. A sailor.
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“The economic time series can be segregated into leaders, laggers and coinciders in relation to movements in aggregate economic activity.”

“In particular, Turner & Newall doggedly contested any claims from the largest high-risk group outside the scheduled factory areas — the laggers.”

“2015 Kathleen, Kage, and the Company, Laggers. Laggers, Dear Readers, in case you grew up ignorant of hopscotch, are the markers you use⟳ when playing the game.”

“In the 1950s, the game was called hopscotch and the object thrown a lagger /'lagar/. Lagger is apparently related to the verb lag.”

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