Usually means: Sound cats make when content.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. purrs: Merriam-Webster
  2. purrs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. purrs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Purr's, Purrs, purrs: Wordnik
  5. purrs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. purrs: Wiktionary
  7. purrs: Dictionary.com
  8. purrs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. purrs: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

(Note: See purr as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (purr)

verb:  (intransitive, of a cat) To make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented.
verb:  (transitive) To say (something) in a throaty, seductive manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a vibrating throaty sound, as from pleasure.
verb:  (intransitive, of an engine) To make a low and consistent rumbling sound.
noun:  The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented.
noun:  A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person.
noun:  The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed
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