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panhandler
noun- a beggar US, 1897
- Maybe a panhandler will try to mooch a quarter[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 14, 1948
- He was a panhandler and a fruit. A disgrace to the Jewish race. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 68, 1953
- Chicago: invisible hierarchy of decorticated wops, small of atrophied gangsters, earthbound ghost hits you at North and Halstead, Cicero, Lincoln Park, panhandler of dreams[.] — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 11, 1957
- “I been a panhandler for ten years,” he said. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 73, 1958
- [T]he scattered junkies, the smalltime pushers, the teaheads, the sad panhandlers, the occasional lonely exiled nymphos haunting the entrance to the men’s head[.] — John Rechy, City of Night, pp. 100–1, 1963
- a nurse US
Jocular reference to bedpans. - — Complete CB Slang Dictionary, p. 72, 1976
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 157, 1981
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