LAGGER Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

lagger

noun

as in snail

someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others after 10 hours, there weren't any spectators left to cheer on the laggers as they finished the marathon

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Recent Examples of lagger If enough go to the Democratic laggers rather than the party frontrunners, both Republicans could still wind up one-two. —

Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026

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snail

Noun

And from a costume design aspect, what Pluribus afforded for me, is to do two extremes, in doing that strip-down of the Joining where clothes become absolutely a necessity and nothing else, like a snail in a shell kind of thing.

— Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 26 May 2026
In the middle of a sculptural fountain inspired by the Ilisos river, which once flowed through the neighborhood, stood a modernist iron snail, spouting water.

— Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2026