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Definition of Panhandler
1. Noun. A beggar who approaches strangers asking for money.
Definition of Panhandler
1. Noun. One who panhandles; an urban beggar who typically stands on a street with an outstretched container in hand, begging for loose change. ¹
2. Noun. A bum. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Panhandler
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Panhandler
Literary usage of Panhandler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Pauperism and the Abolition of Poverty by Isador Ladoff, J. Felix (1904)
""There is then a 'panhandler trust.' "The leader of each band keeps in touch with
the political leader of the ward, being a very valuable factor about a ..."
2. Paradise Regained: Prospects for a New Social Order in the Third Millennium by Walter Prytulak (2000)
"Behind each of the panhandler's slogans there is implied plea for ... panhandler
knows quite well that were he to be honest and were he to ask the ..."
3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
""I'm not a regular panhandler—I've gota story you'll want." Masters stopped on
the instant. He was a new one at the newspaper game—so new that there was ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"He probably believes that in the moves of the onetime Vienna panhandler and
ex-corporal are the incalculable operations of Divine providence. ..."
5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1911)
"... broken-hearted fellow had come before me, and for years I lived there, a
homeless panhandler, begging for drink." The Regenerate mused for a moment. ..."
6. Our Short Story Writers by Blanche Colton Williams (1920)
"He knows Harlem. He knows the narrow chested flat. He knows the Bowery, Irish
and Yiddish. He knows the Tenderloin, cop, panhandler, man about town, sport, ..."
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