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old lag
noun- a regular prisoner or one who has become institutionalised, a recidivist UK, 1950
From LAG - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 69, 1996
- a prisoner who has been in jail for a long time AUSTRALIA, 1950
- Then they jammed his head in a vice, tighened it up and about ten old lags rooted him. — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 219, 1992
- — Donald Catchlove, Ray Denning My Life and Time, p. 13, 1994
- a former prisoner AUSTRALIA, 1812
- In justice to these gentlemen, let it be said that some of the non-professional owners of racehorses are also reputed to be shady, one wealthy man being pointed out to me as “an old lag”---whatever that may be. — J.S. James, The Vagabond Papers, p. 142, 1877
- Not going to disturb any peace-loving citizen on the say so of any rough old lag. — John Wynnum, Jiggin’ in the Riggin’, p. 92, 1965
- a person who has been contracted to a single employer for a very long time, especially of the armed services UK
Humorous use of the sense as “a convict who has been imprisoned for many years”. - From time to time us old lags get called on to address the Ruperts [officers][.] — Chris Ryan, The Watchman, p. 75, 2001
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