Usually means: Person asking for money, food.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. beggar: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. beggar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beggar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beggar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Beggar, beggar: Wordnik
  6. beggar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. beggar: Wiktionary
  8. beggar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. beggar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. beggar: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Beggar, beggar: Dictionary.com
  12. beggar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. beggar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Beggar, The Beggar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Beggar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. beggar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. beggar: Rhymezone
  18. beggar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. beggar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Beggar: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. beggar: Free Dictionary
  22. beggar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. beggar: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. beggar: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. beggar: Vocabulary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Beggar: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beggar: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beggar: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beggar (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. beggar: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. beggar: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. beggar: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See beggared as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who begs.
noun:  A person suffering from extreme poverty.
noun:  (colloquial, sometimes endearing) A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
noun:  (UK) A minced oath for bugger.
verb:  (transitive) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond.

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