panhandle

panhandle
panhandle1
/pan"han'dl/, n.
1. the handle of a pan.
2. (sometimes cap.) a long, narrow, projecting strip of territory that is not a peninsula, esp. such a part of a specified state: the panhandle of Alaska; the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles.
[1855-60; PAN1 + HANDLE]
panhandle2
panhandler, n.
/pan"han'dl/, v., panhandled, panhandling. Informal.
v.i.
1. to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
v.t.
2. to accost and beg from.
3. to obtain by accosting and begging from someone.
[1895-1900, Amer.; back formation from panhandler; so called from the resemblance of the extended arm to a PANHANDLE1]

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