A relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area

Usage examples of panhandle.

In December to that point it tallied two muggings, a stolen vehicle, four vehicle break-ins, a handful of stolen purses, some suspected pickpocket activity, a variety of disturbances by the obnoxious or irate, two episodes of vandalism, a hit-and-run in the parking lot, vagrancy, panhandling, et cetera, et cetera, and a two-part list six pages long of suspected or confirmed shoplifting and stolen or missing merchandise.

As a resident of Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada, an aluminum smelter town just south of the Alaska Panhandle, I was quite directly aware of the Amchitka commotion.

The Mocs were the new home team, having adopted their name and attitude from the cottonmouth snake that was native to the Florida panhandle.

I met Yuki and her mother, Keiko, in front of Saks in the upscale Union Square shopping district out by the Golden Gate Panhandle.

The benefits have been felt from the Panhandle to the Keys, wherever green space and wildlife habitat have been spared from destruction.

It creeps over the entire city, over the monuments and movie theaters, over the Panhandle dope dens and the flophouses in the Tenderloin.

Chester Greenlee panhandled on Eighth Street, wearing a Mickey Mouse mask.

Brighton - a kind of small Irish panhandle that sticks way out to the west of Boston proper - then followed back streets and sidewalks due east until I was in Allston, part of the same panhandle, but scruffier and more complicated.

After searching in vain all morning for places to sing, we decided to give up on that idea and just bum money instead by panhandling on the street.

She was going to go to the Bus Station in Minneapolis and panhandle money for a ticket back to Chicago.

From the Rio Grande to the Okla­homa Panhandle, from the borders of Louisiana to the sands of New Mexico fifteen hundred kilometers away, the state was ablaze with the light of impending battle in twenty million defiant ayes of Texas.

An hour's panhandling, and Edward could purchase fresh double-A batteries for his Discman, then stroll to the food stands along Ventura Boulevard, where he might choose between a Black Angus hamburger, perhaps, or a came asada burrito, or Vietnamese spring rolls.

So in order to cope, I pick locks, shoplift, pick pockets, mug people, panhandle, break and enter, steal cars, lie, fold, spindle, and mutilate.

At that point she realizes that she's left the Panhandle behind, that quite unconsciously she's been walking, crossing the street without looking, wandering into Golden Gate Park proper and far away from the bus line again.

He raised a shaking fist that was wrapped in rags because he would rather spend the money he got panhandling on booze than gloves.