Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Lag-fever
subs. (old).—See quot.
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1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. LAG FEVER. A term of ridicule applied to men who being under sentence of transportation, pretend illness, to avoid being sent from gaol to the hulks.
