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!!!!")

A newb's excuse for getting pwned

An occurance that happens when one or more's internet connection is slow.
This causes the person's input to be unresponsive than normal.
This causes the following symptoms:
Rage-inducing hair-loss
Smashing of computer
Extreme language
Heart attacks
Hitreg issues
Suicidal thoughts
Depression

When you ask someone if theyvare going to keep a promise or not.

Slowness in an online game because of a bad server, or an over-abundance of people using it.

Messing up in life; Failed at something very important

A word that instills fear in the hearts of 'World of Warcraft' fanatics and those who would join the urb-nerd camp everywhere, as thirty or so people have offered irritatingly nerdy definitions for this bit of tech vernacular, thus NO ONE should post a definition with more than one instance of internet shorthand, because it gets really annoying to see online gamers deliver expositories upon scenarios that can only occur in front of a keyboard and a computer moniter. that being said, lag is nothing more than a digial device's irritating tendency to process input more slowly than it takes for the user to output it.