Usually means: Requests earnestly or desperately; pleads.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. begs: Merriam-Webster
  2. begs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. begs: Collins English Dictionary
  4. begs: Vocabulary.com
  5. Beg's, Begs, begs: Wordnik
  6. begs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. begs: Wiktionary
  8. begs: Dictionary.com
  9. begs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. begs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. begs: Legal dictionary

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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BEGS: Acronym Finder
  2. begs: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. begs: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (beg)

verb:  (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
verb:  (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
verb:  (transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive) To obviously lack or be in need of something.
verb:  (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
verb:  (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
verb:  (transitive, law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
noun:  The act of begging; an imploring request.
noun:  A surname from Hindi.
noun:  (history) Alternative form of bey [(historical) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions]
noun:  (knitting) Abbreviation of beginning. [(uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.]
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