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panhandle

noun
/ˈpænˌhæn.dəl/UK

Etymology

From its central location in the Texas Panhandle.

  1. inherited from *handulōną✻ — “to take, grip, feel”
  2. inherited from *handulōn✻
  3. inherited from handlian — “to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”
  4. inherited from handlen
  5. compounded as panhandle — “pan + handle”

Definitions

  1. The handle of a pan.

  2. An area within a nation or subnational division that appears to stick out or project when…

    An area within a nation or subnational division that appears to stick out or project when viewed on a map; an especially elongated salient.

  3. The handle that activates an ejector seat.

    • The Captain Keith Handscomb was the occupant of that ejector seat and the only survivor; his narrow escape was by just being able to reach the seat panhandle with his third and fourth fingers of his left hand.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change,…

      To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, as a homeless or vagrant person.

      • I had a white cane, but I never used it. Once, alone and lost in downtown Washington, I unfolded it, immediately sweating as I felt hundreds of eyes shift onto me. A man who was panhandling grabbed me and showed me the way home.

    2. To elicit

      To elicit; to attempt to obtain or provoke a certain response or answer.

    3. A city, the county seat of Carson County, Texas, United States.

    4. The Alaskan Panhandle.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA