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lag
verb- to inform against a person AUSTRALIA, 1832
- He certainly was one to lag was Andy Andrews. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 166, 1956
- This flip might lag me to the jacks. — Kevin Mackey, The Cure, p. 63, 1970
- You don’t lag on your mates and it’s important to have a prior. — TV Week, p. 14, 30 May 1992
- They all talked the talk about not lagging on one another and refusing to give up their mates, but in 99 per cent of cases it was all bullshit. — William Dodson, The Sharp End, p. 82, 2001
- to arrest UK, 1835
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 127, May 1950
- The case was about to come up. I had been lagged for another jumpover (q.v.) I did. The trial would be a formality. — Howard Paul, The Joy, p. 68, 1996
- to be serving a prison sentence UK, 1927
Originally, “to be transported for a crime”. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 69, 1996
- to urinate UK
From an earlier sense as “water”. A variant spelling is “lage”. - — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 178, 2002
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