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Definition of Panhandlers
1. panhandler [n] - See also: panhandler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Panhandlers
Literary usage of Panhandlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Police Practice and Procedure by Cornelius Francis Cahalane (1914)
"BEGGARS AND panhandlers. Persons wandering abroad and begging, or going from ...
"panhandlers" are beggars who frequent busy thoroughfares, the vicinity of ..."
2. Paradise Regained: Prospects for a New Social Order in the Third Millennium by Walter Prytulak (2000)
"Doing away with beggars and panhandlers No one could successfully panhandle for
personal cause unless it ... panhandlers, not unlike brand-name advertisers ..."
3. Problem-oriented Drug Enforcement: A Community-Based Approach for Effective by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"In 1988 radio calls concerning belligerent panhandlers and drug-related activity
at this corner increased dramatically. Analysis. ..."
4. No Homeless People Allowed: A Report on Anti-Homeless Laws, Litigation and by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"The Transit Authority began a crackdown on subway panhandlers in early January,
1994. The crackdown has included an aggressive public relations campaign, ..."
5. American Pauperism and the Abolition of Poverty by Isador Ladoff, J. Felix (1904)
"There are many bands of 'panhandlers' at work in the metropolis, all the way from
Harlem to the Battery, but there are six rings which are particularly ..."
6. Performance Measures for the Criminal Justice System: Discussion Papers from by James Q. Wilson (1994)
"... panhandlers or homeless people sleeping on public benches ~A residential
burglary gang that is working the neighborhood ~A park that is the scene of ..."
7. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1906)
"panhandlers, Revel of the. Char. 15: 695-7. F. 17, '06. Panics. Commercial panics,
past and future. AD Noyes. Allan. 98: 433-45. O.; Same cond. ..."
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