Usually means: Insects with hard, protective wing-cases.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word beetles:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. beetles: Merriam-Webster
  2. beetles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. beetles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Beetle's, Beetles, beetle's, beetles: Wordnik
  5. beetles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Beetles, beetles: Wiktionary
  7. beetles: Dictionary.com
  8. beetles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Beetles, The Beetles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. beetles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beetles: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. beetles: Medical dictionary

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

(Note: See beetle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (beetle)

noun:  Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
noun:  (uncountable) A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
verb:  To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
adjective:  Protruding, jutting, overhanging.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To loom over; to extend or jut (above).
noun:  A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
noun:  A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
verb:  To beat with a heavy mallet.
verb:  To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
noun:  (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011).
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”) [(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011).]
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