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Panhandle   /pˈænhˌændəl/   Listen
noun
Panhandle  n.  The handle of a pan; hence, fig., Any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.


verb
Panhandle  v. t.  
1.
To obtain by panhandling.
2.
To accost in a public place and ask for money from.


panhandle  v. i.  To accost people in a public place and ask for money; to beg.





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"Panhandle" Quotes from Famous Books



... hardened "the creeps." Who the "stranglers" themselves were, nobody seemed to know. It was rumored, on the one hand, that they included the biggest ranch-owners in the Northwest; on the other hand, it was stated that they were bands of lawless Texans driven out of the Panhandle and hired by the ranchmen at thirty dollars a month "to clean up the country." Whoever they were, they moved swiftly and acted without hesitation. The newspapers said little about them, partly because they knew little, partly because there was a general ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn
... "Why're you ... exception? How come you get right into the middle of it, like that time on the Panhandle Reservation. ...
— Frigid Fracas • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... of the Triangle B Ranch in the Panhandle," said Bud. "It was owned at that time by old man Sterling, of New York. He wanted to sell out, and he wrote for me to come on to New York and explain the ranch to the syndicate that wanted to buy. So I sends to Fort Worth and ...
— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry
... capital of West Virginia, but for good reasons it was decided to move the seat of government from "that knot on the Panhandle" to Charleston. A commodious building of brick and sandstone, unchristened as to style of architecture, has been erected for the home of the law-makers; and henceforth the city which started around the little log fort built in 1786 by ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 • Various
... panhandle at Baker street to the Ocean Beach, the park stretches like a massive gold-green buckler enameled with lustrous gems. There are 1013 acres in the park, its Main Drive, including the panhandle, being 4 ...
— Fascinating San Francisco • Fred Brandt and Andrew Y. Wood


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