[
US
/ˈpænˌhændəɫ/
]
[ UK /pˈænhændəl/ ]
[ UK /pˈænhændəl/ ]
VERB
- beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money
NOUN
- the handle of a pan
-
a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area
Wheeling is located in the northern panhandle of West Virginia
How To Use panhandle In A Sentence
- And we -- it does extent all the way up toward Jacksonville, all the way down into West Palm Beach, all the way over to Fort Myers, and northward, almost kind of budging into the pan -- the Big Bend area, almost into the Panhandle, but not quite just yet. CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004
- Charles Duvall, a moderate bishop from Florida's panhandle, wrote in an August pastoral letter to his flock that if God had joined them together, he as bishop would work to keep them that way.
- During that time he was savagely beaten, he built and renovated a small house for himself, panhandled, spent days on end drunk, took drugs, rode along on thieving runs and stood in soup kitchen lines.
- Recently, a San Francisco hotel association asked its guests not to give money to panhandlers because this just kept them hanging around, creating problems.
- After all, there are plenty of illegal aliens and panhandlers coming in to replace them.
- Wheat streak mosaic is the major disease in the southern Panhandle this year.
- `No. Scobie, Arnold is shifty and has his hand out for anything you'll put into it, he's the most up-market panhandler I've ever met. MURDER SONG
- Move over, aggressive panhandlers and dope dealers.
- While he did so, a down-and-out panhandled him for money. The Bullet Catchers
- I used to walk down Broadway with my camera, and everyone who panhandled me, I'd ask them to pose for a picture first.
