Crossword clues for panhandler
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
"one who begs," 1893, from panhandle (n.) in begging sense. Related: Panhandled; panhandler; panhandling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who panhandles; an urban beggar who typically stands on a street with an outstretched container in hand, begging for loose change. 2 A bum.
WordNet
n. a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money
Usage examples of "panhandler".
You pay out two thousand, say, for ten glorious days of not having to schlepp around Manhattan with all the gum snappers, panhandlers, the general roll call of sewer snipes.
Not to the rolling hills of Virginia or the space centers of Houston or Canaveral, nor to the glamour of Los Angeles nor the perpetual nightlife of New York, but to a simple two-bedroom condo in northwest San Francisco, proximate not to power brokers and politicos but to panhandlers, prostitutes, tourists, illegal immigrants, and the best Chinese food in North America.
The panhandlers are usually barefoot, always young and never apologetic.
He was climbing stairs and stumbling, he was being robbed at knifepoint by a couple of panhandlers, staggering against them, he was dropping his wine glass on the table, he was in a bed thank God, he was lying in a bath, wallowing.
I was thunderstruck in the middle of the thought that they had done this on purpose just to ask directions, as a panhandler advances on you straight up the sidewalk to bar your way.
And-let me see-add something like this: In the event Ira Weatheral fails to qualify for inheritance, then all my worldly wealth of which I die possessed shall go to, uh, to-to found a home for indigent and superannuated pickpockets, prostitutes, panhandlers, piemen, priggers, and other unworthy poor starting with 'P'.
And—let me see—add something like this: In the event Ira Weatheral fails to qualify for inheritance, then all my worldly wealth of which I die possessed shall go to, uh, to—to found a home for indigent and superannuated pickpockets, prostitutes, panhandlers, piemen, priggers, and other unworthy poor starting with ‘P’.
Yaeger looked more like a street-corner panhandler than he did a brilliant computer-systems analyst.
He looked at the great city, with no tie to any view or usage others had made of it, it was not a city of gangsters or panhandlers or derelicts or whores, it was the greatest industrial achievement in the history of man, its only meaning was that which it meant to him, there was a personal quality in his sight of it, a quality of possessiveness and of unhesitant perception, as if he were seeing it for the first time—or the last.
The other week I was at a party full of Boston yuppies, the originals, and they were all complaining about the panhandlers on the Common, how aggressive they'd become.