panhandle
noun
the handle of a pan.
Example Sentences
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Another man said his friend, who regularly panhandles on a busy street, has been missing since the takeover began.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2025
The Weather Service has declared “extremely critical” fire weather in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles and over large portions of western Kansas.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
Williams spends most nights sleeping on park benches in Silver Spring, where he said he panhandles for money, asking strangers whether they can spare 50 cents for bus fare for a veteran.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2019
For the fourth consecutive day, tornadoes strafed the middle of the country Thursday, this time concentrated in sparsely populated panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas.
From Fox News ● May 24, 2019
Distribution.—Western and southern Colorado, southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona and northern New Mexico, east to the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and to southwestern Kansas.
From Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis, On the Central Great Plains And in Adjacent Regions by J. Knox Jones
