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词汇 panhandle
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Definition of panhandle in English:

panhandle

noun ˈpanhand(ə)lˈpænˌhæn(d)l
North American
  • often in place names A narrow strip of territory projecting from the main territory of one state into another.

    (一州突入另一州的)锅柄状地区

    the Oklahoma Panhandle

    俄克拉何马州的锅柄状地区。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Charles Duvall, a moderate bishop from Florida's panhandle, wrote in an August pastoral letter to his flock that if God had joined them together, he as bishop would work to keep them that way.
    • Far from the Caribbean vibrancy of Miami or the Disney cheerfulness of Orlando, this sleepy town lies hard against the Georgia border in the northernmost region of the panhandle.
    • Pathologists strongly suspect that Hurricane Ivan that hit the panhandle of Florida in mid September is responsible for the spread of the disease from South America.
    • From the Malaspina Glacier west of Yakutat Bay, the Tongass sweeps south 500 miles over most of Alaska's southeastern panhandle and the Alexander Archipelago.
    • It's 90 miles east of Amarillo, up in the panhandle.
    • In 1999 and 2000 we ran traps in the northern panhandle of West Virginia at Tomlinson Run State Park, near Weirton, a steel-producing city west of Pittsburgh.
    • Take a trip to the panhandle of Nebraska to experience rugged buttes, badlands, and spires.
    • Destin, located in the panhandle region, has become a prime landing strip for snowbirds who would rather gaze at blue water and white sand than gray buildings and freeways.
    • Many came from Florida's panhandle, and the changing colors in the rows nearer the top of the wall signify when Southern suppliers stopped furnishing them just prior to the Civil War.
    • But walking along Interstate 40, somewhere in the panhandle of Texas a week later, Matilda and I exchanged old war stories.
    • But a long stretch of the Gulf Coast, from Louisiana to Florida's eastern panhandle, could take the brunt of this hurricane's next landfall.
    • Three workers were killed and three others injured in an explosion January 22 at a coal mine near Cameron, West Virginia, in the state's northern panhandle.
    • Pathologists strongly suspect that Hurricane Ivan, which hit the panhandle of Florida in mid-September is responsible for the spread of the disease from South America.
    • ‘In north Florida and the panhandle, we had Tropical Storm Allison come through and drop nearly 12 inches of rain in the Tallahassee area,’ he said.
    • The Eastern mole can be found from the Atlantic to the foothills of the Rockies and from Southern Canada to the panhandle of Florida.
    • After completion of the grazing phase, the steers were shipped by truck to a commercial feedlot in the panhandle of Oklahoma.
    • My main concern is that because the panhandle is so thin, there is very little in the way of a buffer zone separating Washington from Montana.
    • Leo turned west on one of the gravel roads that marked almost every square mile of panhandle farm land and parked his car.
    • He initiated a series of interdiction missions flown along the infiltration routes developing in the Laotian panhandle.
    • Long-lead outlooks indicated a cooler August for the entire state, with above normal precipitation over the southwest and southern panhandle.
verb ˈpanhand(ə)lˈpænˌhæn(d)l
[no object]North American informal
  • 1Beg in the street.

    〈非正式〉沿街乞讨

    she went back to the streets to panhandle for money
    Example sentencesExamples
    • How many times can I be called racist or intolerant because I refuse to fight for their right for them to practice their religious rites or to give them money while they panhandle?
    • During that time he was savagely beaten, he built and renovated a small house for himself, panhandled, spent days on end drunk, took drugs, rode along on thieving runs and stood in soup kitchen lines.
    • The bylaw also prohibited a person from panhandling towards motorists who were parked or stopped at a traffic light, and from panhandling on a street between sunset and sunrise.
    • Although payment is collected from the audience at the end of each show, pass-the-hat style, structured busking shows are not the same thing as panhandling.
    • They're required to panhandle for their food money and sleep in cars in the school parking lot.
    • On Christmas eve there's a panhandler who happens to be an ex-convict panhandling from door to door.
    • Marlene, 59, who became homeless nine months ago after cancer surgery, panhandles as temperatures drop to the low 40's on Van Ness Street in San Francisco on January 31, 2001.
    • Once in Halifax I was physically attacked by a lady in a wheelchair who was panhandling beside me.
    • Many people have asked about panhandling - I think that people should not give money to panhandlers.
    • ‘I don't see the need for panhandling like that,’ the Pentagon source said.
    • By April 1 he was broke, so he panhandled for money to buy food.
    • Most often, this implies a life on city streets begging, panhandling, petty theft, and using charity and soup kitchens close to the drug source.
    • And to show their gratitude, his family takes off with no forwarding address, leaving Jong-du to roam the streets panhandling for tofu.
    • As I left Rideau Street that afternoon I saw these men panhandling and indeed all they were doing was quietly sitting against the wall with a sign.
    • Today, he panhandles on the streets of Montreal.
    • I was robbing houses, stealing money from friends and family, conning people, panhandling at some point on the street.
    • I wonder how long it'll be before they are panhandling for money, smokes and cheap wine?
    • The controversial meters were put up in order to stop panhandling in the city's most popular shopping district, particularly those identified by locals as middle-class kids trolling for beer money.
    • Once, he and a buddy went panhandling on Christmas Eve and collected $220.
    • He was charged for handing out leaflets, under the same bylaw that covers, among other things, panhandling.
    1. 1.1with object Beg for something from (someone) in the street.
      a bum panhandled him for a cup of coffee
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In another, a 24 year old received $546-worth of tickets in three months for panhandling motorists.
      • An overture to a homeless guy ended when the homeless guy - in a reversal of the usual voter-politician interaction - panhandled the candidate.
      • The human crush is a parade of the homeless, the crazies, crackheads, and punk teenagers with purple hair who panhandle the tourists.
      • In Galveston the sunburned lady in the parking lot panhandles me for change with leather fingers.
      • I'd rather not be panhandled by a drunk when I go downtown, and I walk away feeling rather indignant because I work for a living even though I don't always like it.
      • I used to walk down Broadway with my camera, and everyone who panhandled me, I'd ask them to pose for a picture first.
      • As I cruised the game room, two kids who had apparently run out of tokens panhandled me.
      • He observed a homeless teenager panhandling passers-by for spare change a dozen feet away.

Derivatives

  • panhandler

  • noun ˈpanhandləˈpænˌhæn(d)lər
    North American
    • Recognizing a problem in the making, the Minneapolis police chief proposed requiring begging licenses that would facilitate the arrest of panhandlers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The meters were installed in response to complaints from local merchants that were losing business because some panhandlers were becoming aggressive and belligerent, refusing to move from doorways and harassing shoppers.
      • After all, there are plenty of illegal aliens and panhandlers coming in to replace them.
      • There are panhandlers here and there are panhandlers outside The Bay.
      • According to McCormick, ‘The potential for a great number of panhandlers to occupy our streets is certainly there.’
      • Seven million people pass every day through the subway system with its moving population of commuters, the occasional homeless persons and the subway musicians and panhandlers.
      • Recently, a San Francisco hotel association asked its guests not to give money to panhandlers because this just kept them hanging around, creating problems.
      • City officials and business people have come up with another scheme to end what they call the nuisance of ‘professional panhandlers.’
      • Many panhandlers hang out around fast food places.
      • Beggars, panhandlers and hustlers are more persistent and ingenious here than anywhere in India.
      • Based on the stories of abuse from last summer, and more recently, I would estimate that there are probably five officers who need to be disciplined for their conduct towards homeless panhandlers.
      • ‘Without the aggressive panhandlers, drunk street people or drug use in our washrooms, our members are free to think about improving a menu, renovating a store or putting up new decorations,’ he says.
      • In Yerevan, Armenia's capital, the number of BMWs seen rolling along city streets has mushroomed; and so have the ranks of panhandlers roaming those very same urban boulevards.

Rhymes

manhandle

Definition of panhandle in US English:

panhandle

nounˈpænˌhæn(d)lˈpanˌhan(d)l
North American
  • (often in place names) a narrow strip of territory projecting from the main territory of one state into another state.

    (一州突入另一州的)锅柄状地区

    the Oklahoma Panhandle

    俄克拉何马州的锅柄状地区。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘In north Florida and the panhandle, we had Tropical Storm Allison come through and drop nearly 12 inches of rain in the Tallahassee area,’ he said.
    • But a long stretch of the Gulf Coast, from Louisiana to Florida's eastern panhandle, could take the brunt of this hurricane's next landfall.
    • It's 90 miles east of Amarillo, up in the panhandle.
    • After completion of the grazing phase, the steers were shipped by truck to a commercial feedlot in the panhandle of Oklahoma.
    • Far from the Caribbean vibrancy of Miami or the Disney cheerfulness of Orlando, this sleepy town lies hard against the Georgia border in the northernmost region of the panhandle.
    • The Eastern mole can be found from the Atlantic to the foothills of the Rockies and from Southern Canada to the panhandle of Florida.
    • Three workers were killed and three others injured in an explosion January 22 at a coal mine near Cameron, West Virginia, in the state's northern panhandle.
    • Long-lead outlooks indicated a cooler August for the entire state, with above normal precipitation over the southwest and southern panhandle.
    • Leo turned west on one of the gravel roads that marked almost every square mile of panhandle farm land and parked his car.
    • My main concern is that because the panhandle is so thin, there is very little in the way of a buffer zone separating Washington from Montana.
    • He initiated a series of interdiction missions flown along the infiltration routes developing in the Laotian panhandle.
    • From the Malaspina Glacier west of Yakutat Bay, the Tongass sweeps south 500 miles over most of Alaska's southeastern panhandle and the Alexander Archipelago.
    • In 1999 and 2000 we ran traps in the northern panhandle of West Virginia at Tomlinson Run State Park, near Weirton, a steel-producing city west of Pittsburgh.
    • Destin, located in the panhandle region, has become a prime landing strip for snowbirds who would rather gaze at blue water and white sand than gray buildings and freeways.
    • But walking along Interstate 40, somewhere in the panhandle of Texas a week later, Matilda and I exchanged old war stories.
    • Pathologists strongly suspect that Hurricane Ivan that hit the panhandle of Florida in mid September is responsible for the spread of the disease from South America.
    • Many came from Florida's panhandle, and the changing colors in the rows nearer the top of the wall signify when Southern suppliers stopped furnishing them just prior to the Civil War.
    • Pathologists strongly suspect that Hurricane Ivan, which hit the panhandle of Florida in mid-September is responsible for the spread of the disease from South America.
    • Charles Duvall, a moderate bishop from Florida's panhandle, wrote in an August pastoral letter to his flock that if God had joined them together, he as bishop would work to keep them that way.
    • Take a trip to the panhandle of Nebraska to experience rugged buttes, badlands, and spires.
verbˈpænˌhæn(d)lˈpanˌhan(d)l
[no object]North American informal
  • Beg in the street.

    〈非正式〉沿街乞讨

    she went back to the streets to panhandle for money
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Marlene, 59, who became homeless nine months ago after cancer surgery, panhandles as temperatures drop to the low 40's on Van Ness Street in San Francisco on January 31, 2001.
    • On Christmas eve there's a panhandler who happens to be an ex-convict panhandling from door to door.
    • I wonder how long it'll be before they are panhandling for money, smokes and cheap wine?
    • ‘I don't see the need for panhandling like that,’ the Pentagon source said.
    • Many people have asked about panhandling - I think that people should not give money to panhandlers.
    • The bylaw also prohibited a person from panhandling towards motorists who were parked or stopped at a traffic light, and from panhandling on a street between sunset and sunrise.
    • As I left Rideau Street that afternoon I saw these men panhandling and indeed all they were doing was quietly sitting against the wall with a sign.
    • They're required to panhandle for their food money and sleep in cars in the school parking lot.
    • Most often, this implies a life on city streets begging, panhandling, petty theft, and using charity and soup kitchens close to the drug source.
    • Today, he panhandles on the streets of Montreal.
    • And to show their gratitude, his family takes off with no forwarding address, leaving Jong-du to roam the streets panhandling for tofu.
    • He was charged for handing out leaflets, under the same bylaw that covers, among other things, panhandling.
    • By April 1 he was broke, so he panhandled for money to buy food.
    • Although payment is collected from the audience at the end of each show, pass-the-hat style, structured busking shows are not the same thing as panhandling.
    • Once, he and a buddy went panhandling on Christmas Eve and collected $220.
    • The controversial meters were put up in order to stop panhandling in the city's most popular shopping district, particularly those identified by locals as middle-class kids trolling for beer money.
    • Once in Halifax I was physically attacked by a lady in a wheelchair who was panhandling beside me.
    • How many times can I be called racist or intolerant because I refuse to fight for their right for them to practice their religious rites or to give them money while they panhandle?
    • I was robbing houses, stealing money from friends and family, conning people, panhandling at some point on the street.
    • During that time he was savagely beaten, he built and renovated a small house for himself, panhandled, spent days on end drunk, took drugs, rode along on thieving runs and stood in soup kitchen lines.
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