panhandle
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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
panhandle (plural panhandles)
- The handle of a pan.
- (cartography, US) A area within a nation or subnational division that appears to sticks out or projects when viewed on a map; an especially elongated salient.
- (aviation) The handle that activates an ejector seat.
- 2007, Roger Brooks, Handley Page Victor, volume 2:
- 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.
Hypernyms
- (cartography): salient
Translations
handle of a pan
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any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan
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Etymology 2
Probable back-formation from panhandler.
Verb
panhandle (third-person singular simple present panhandles, present participle panhandling, simple past and past participle panhandled)
- (US) To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, as a bum.
- 2014 May 30, Will Butler, “The Mark of Cane”, in The New York Times Magazine:
- 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.
Translations
beg for money
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