Clues for the word "LAG"

We've had 222 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 886 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on January 30, 2026.

Definition of lag

a. - Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
a. - Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
a. - Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
n. - One who lags; that which comes in last.
n. - The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
n. - The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
n. - A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.
n. - See Graylag.
v. i. - To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
v. t. - To cause to lag; to slacken.
v. t. - To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
n. - One transported for a crime.
v. t. - To transport for crime.