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panhandle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
panhandle \pan"han`dle\ (p[a^]n"h[a^]n`d'l), v. i. To accost people in a public place and ask for money; to beg. -- pan"hand`ler (p[a^]n"h[a^]nd`l[~e]r), n. -- pan"hand`ling (p[a^]n"h[a^]nd`l[i^]ng), n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"something resembling the handle of a pan," 1851, from pan (n.) + handle (n.). Especially in reference to geography, originally American English, from 1856, in reference to Virginia (now West Virginia; Florida, Texas, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Alaska also have them). Meaning "an act of begging" is attested from 1849, perhaps from notion of arm stuck out like a panhandle, or of one who handles a (beggar's) pan.
"to beg," 1888, from panhandle (n.) in the begging sense. Related: Panhandled; panhandling.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 The handle of a pan. 2 (context cartography US English) On a map, any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan. Etymology 2
vb. (context US English) To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, as a bum.
WordNet
n. a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area; "Wheeling is located in the northern panhandle of West Virginia"
the handle of a pan
v. beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1014
Land area (2000): 2.128077 sq. miles (5.511694 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.128077 sq. miles (5.511694 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54960
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 35.347409 N, 101.381997 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79068
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Panhandle
Wikipedia
The Panhandle is a park in San Francisco, California, that forms a panhandle with Golden Gate Park. It is long and narrow, being three-quarters of a mile long and one block wide. Fell Street borders it to the north, Oak Street to the south, and Baker Street to the east. Only two streets run through it - Stanyan Street at the western end between it and Golden Gate Park and Masonic Avenue through the middle. Two paved walking paths run through it from Golden Gate Park to Baker Street, one allowing bicycles. There are basketball courts, a public restroom, and a playground in the section between Stanyan Street and Masonic Avenue.
The William McKinley Monument is at the foot of the park, facing the DMV across Baker Street. It was dedicated in 1904 by President Theodore Roosevelt, who succeeded McKinley after his assassination in 1901.
The park forms the southern boundary of the Western Addition neighborhood and the northern boundary of the Haight-Ashbury.
Panhandle is a 1948 film directed by Lesley Selander. This Western marked the writing and producing debuts of Blake Edwards and John C. Champion. Champion later reworked the story as the 1966 Audie Murphy western, The Texican. The team of Edwards, Champion, Selander, and star Rod Cameron reteamed the following year for the western, Stampede. Edwards would later produce the police drama, City Detective starring Rod Cameron. The series holds the distinction of being the first syndicated television series.
A panhandle is a geographic term for an elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity.
Panhandle may also refer to:
- Begging, which is sometimes referred to as panhandling
- Panhandle, Texas, a town
- Panhandle (San Francisco), a park in San Francisco, California
- Panhandle (film), a 1948 film
- Oklahoma Panhandle
- Texas Panhandle
- Panhandle Pete, a character from the game Adventures in the Magic Kingdom based on the Disney character Pete
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.