Definitions for panhandle

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panhandle pan·han·dle

Spelling: [pan-han-dl]

IPA: /ˈpænˌhæn dl/

Panhandle is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 252 anagrams from letters in panhandle (aadehlnnp).

Definitions for panhandle

noun

1. the handle of a pan.
2. (sometimes initial capital letter) a long, narrow, projecting strip of territory that is not a peninsula, especially such a part of a specified state:

verb (used with object)

1. to accost and beg from.
2. to obtain by accosting and begging from someone.

verb (used without object)

1. to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.

Origin of panhandle

First recorded in 1855-60; pan¹ + handle

Examples for panhandle

Last year panhandle ranchers Phillip and Doris Smith suffered through the worst one-year drought in Texas history.

Either of these men could have traveled the panhandle blindfolded.

It was a hard-luck symposium, of course; but there was more to it than just a panhandle touch.

When it's cold outside, as it is for much of the year in the Idaho panhandle, inside accommodations are warm and cozy.

Somehow the sobriquet had clung to him even after his return to the panhandle.

I'm not goin' to beg you on my knees to take the best job in the panhandle.

So we made it the boys from Nebraska and South Dakota, from the panhandle and Okeehobee.

Southern Florida is mostly democrat, the north and panhandle mostly Republican.

One represents an urban district in Chicago, the other the panhandle of Idaho.

Yet there was no better line-rider in the panhandle than Jumbo Wilkins.