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panhandler

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A street beggar.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who panhandles; an urban beggar who typically stands on a street with an outstretched container in hand, begging for loose change.
  • noun A bum.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money

Etymologies

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Obscure. Speculative. Panhandling always seems to involve a container for receiving loose change, so perhaps referring to a small, handled pan or to the container as the pan and the arm[s] holding it as the handle.

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Examples

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  • This fellow has been around for a long time - a gringo "panhandler" - I was amazed the first time I saw him and tried to find out more about him but failed.

    I saw a Gringo begging today 2009

  • This fellow has been around for a long time - a gringo "panhandler" - I was amazed the first time I saw him and tried to find out more about him but failed.

    I saw a Gringo begging today 2009

  • This fellow has been around for a long time - a gringo "panhandler" - I was amazed the first time I saw him and tried to find out more about him but failed.

    I saw a Gringo begging today 2009

  • This fellow has been around for a long time - a gringo "panhandler" - I was amazed the first time I saw him and tried to find out more about him but failed.

    I saw a Gringo begging today 2009

  • This fellow has been around for a long time - a gringo "panhandler" - I was amazed the first time I saw him and tried to find out more about him but failed.

    I saw a Gringo begging today 2009

  • This fellow has been around for a long time - a gringo "panhandler" - I was amazed the first time I saw him and tried to find out more about him but failed.

    I saw a Gringo begging today 2009

  • This fellow has been around for a long time - a gringo "panhandler" - I was amazed the first time I saw him and tried to find out more about him but failed.

    I saw a Gringo begging today 2009

  • This fellow has been around for a long time - a gringo "panhandler" - I was amazed the first time I saw him and tried to find out more about him but failed.

    I saw a Gringo begging today 2009

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synonyms (27)

Words with the same meaning

  1. beggar
  2. bum
  3. bummer
  4. cadger
  5. coupon clippers
  6. drone
  7. freeloader
  8. hobo
  9. idle rich
  10. leisure class
  11. loafer
  12. lounge lizard
  13. lumpen proletariat
  14. mendicant
  15. mendicant friar
  16. mendicant order
  17. moocher
  18. nonworker
  19. parasite
  20. rentiers
  21. schnorrer
  22. scrounger
  23. spiv
  24. sponger
  25. the unemployable
  26. the unemployed
  27. tramp

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. beggar
  2. mendicant

same context (16)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. assignor
  2. dreamful
  3. druggie
  4. druggies
  5. indigents
  6. locknut
  7. metaconcert
  8. milker
  9. multilateralism
  10. nonsmokers
  11. rednecks
  12. shopgirl
  13. shoplifter
  14. sincei
  15. tought
  16. wage-slave

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  • Prolagus commented on the word panhandler

    One of my favorite stores in NYC, a kitchenware store, is called "Broadway Panhandler". Only today I looked up the word.

    May 10, 2011