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Panhandle

//ˈpænˌhæn.dəl// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city, the county seat of Carson County, Texas, United States.
  2. 2
    The Alaskan Panhandle.
Noun
  1. 1
    The handle of a pan.
  2. 2
    the handle of a pan wordnet
  3. 3
    An area within a nation or subnational division that appears to stick out or project when viewed on a map; an especially elongated salient. US
  4. 4
    a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area wordnet
  5. 5
    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."

Verb
  1. 1
    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. US, intransitive

    "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. 2
    beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money wordnet
  3. 3
    To elicit; to attempt to obtain or provoke a certain response or answer. figuratively, transitive, uncommon

Etymology

Etymology 1

From pan + handle.

Etymology 2

Probable back-formation from panhandler.

Etymology 3

From its central location in the Texas Panhandle.

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