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beg buttons

beg buttons is the plural of beg button.

Meaning of beg 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

Questions about beg buttons

What is beg buttons the plural of?
Beg buttons is the plural of beg button.

Words near beg buttons in the dictionary

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

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