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verb (used without object)
1.
to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
verb (used with object)
2.
to accost and beg from.
3.
to obtain by accosting and begging from someone.
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Origin:
1895–1900, Americanism; back formation from panhandler; so called from the resemblance of the extended arm to a panhandle1
1895–1900, Americanism; back formation from panhandler; so called from the resemblance of the extended arm to a panhandle1
Related forms
pan·han·dler, noun
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Word Origin & History
panhandle
"something resembling the handle of a pan," 1851, especially in ref. to geography, originally Amer.Eng., 1856, in ref. to West Virginia (Florida, Texas, Idaho, Oklahoma also have them). Meaning "an act of begging" is attested from 1849, perhaps from notion of arm stuck out like a panhandle; verb panhandle
EXPAND"to beg" is from 1903.
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