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beg button

beg button noun: a pedestrian call button.

Noun

beg button (plural beg buttons)

  1. (derogatory) A pedestrian call button.
    • Pushing the “beg button” (so called as the pedestrian must request the signal) twice does not make it come faster or stay green longer. Ten, or a hundred, pedestrians do not make the “walk” light come faster either. The beg button is often positioned out of the way, requiring the pedestrian to walk...2018 June 10, David Levinson, “How Australia's traffic signals favour drivers and discourage walking”, in The Guardian
    • Minneapolis is banishing the “beg button” at hundreds of city intersections, automating the walk signs so pedestrians don’t have to touch a potentially germ-ridden surface.2020 April 22, Liz Navratil, Emma Nelson, “Minneapolis automates walk signals to protect pedestrians from coronavirus”, in Star Tribune, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2021

Forms of beg button

pluralbeg buttons

Questions about beg button

What does beg button mean?
Beg button means a pedestrian call button.
What part of speech is beg button?
Beg button is a noun.
What is the plural of beg button?
The plural of beg button is beg buttons.

Words near beg button in the dictionary

  1. befurring
  2. befurs
  3. befuzzle
  4. befuzzled
  5. beg
  6. beg button
  7. beg buttons
  8. beg for one's life
  9. beg it
  10. beg leave
  11. beg off

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