Every gamer's worst nightmare.

A phenomenon in video games where the game slows down. Many gamers do not have the mental capabilities to deal with said lag, causing them to go into mentally and physically destructive meltdowns.

A prison name for someone who's in doing time or someone who has done time (Britain and Ireland). In use the mid 20th century and probably alot earlier too. In a song written by Brendan Behan; the old triangle.

not to be confused with latency (the time it takes to send a packet to and recieve a response packet from a server along a network), lag is impaired computer functionality (slow application responses or reduced/choppy framerates) resulting from high latency, packet loss, or low-preformance (generally video) hardware

adj. laggy, vi. lag

Something that happens upon people with slow connections, or idiots who don't know when to stop downloading porn.

Number one cause of violence amongst gamers.

a term from online games desciribing a problem in a game causing people or objects to "freeze" and re-apear elseware, very annoying and sometimes used as an excuse by noobs (e.g. noob just got killed so he says: "Stupid lag!!!!")