What (who) is panhandling - definition
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![Beggar in [[Uppsala]], Sweden, 2014](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Beggar in Uppsala, Sweden.jpg?width=200 "Beggar in [[Uppsala]], Sweden, 2014")
![A street beggar in [[India]] reaches into a car (Calcutta Kolkata)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/India - Kolkata street beggar - 3246.jpg?width=200 "A street beggar in [[India]] reaches into a car (Calcutta Kolkata)")
![Ottawa, Ontario]], Canada. The meter accepts donations for charitable efforts as part of an official effort to discourage panhandling.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kindness meter ottawa 2011.jpeg?width=200 "Ottawa, Ontario]], Canada. The meter accepts donations for charitable efforts as part of an official effort to discourage panhandling.")
!["Please do not encourage the beggars", [[Sarahan]], India](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Signs in Sarahan, India.jpg?width=200 "\"Please do not encourage the beggars\", [[Sarahan]], India")
![Begging at traffic lights in [[Patras]], Greece, 2010](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Woman begging.jpg?width=200 "Begging at traffic lights in [[Patras]], Greece, 2010")
![''The Singing Beggars'' by Russian painter [[Ivan Yermenyov]] c. 1775](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ivan Yermenyov. Singing beggars.jpg?width=200 "''The Singing Beggars'' by Russian painter [[Ivan Yermenyov]] c. 1775")
![In a 1786 [[James Gillray]] caricature, the plentiful [[money bags]] handed to [[King George III]] are contrasted with the beggar whose legs and arms were amputated, in the left corner](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/National-Debt-Gillray.jpeg?width=200 "In a 1786 [[James Gillray]] caricature, the plentiful [[money bags]] handed to [[King George III]] are contrasted with the beggar whose legs and arms were amputated, in the left corner")
![''Portrait of a Blind Beggar, [[Glamorganshire]]'', [[George Orleans Delamotte]], 1818](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DV271 Portrait of a Blind Begger, Glamorganshire.jpg?width=200 "''Portrait of a Blind Beggar, [[Glamorganshire]]'', [[George Orleans Delamotte]], 1818")
!["[[The Man with the Twisted Lip]]", illustrated by [[Sidney Paget]] 1891, a beggar playing a major role in a [[Sherlock Holmes]] adventure.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Twis-05.jpg?width=200 "\"[[The Man with the Twisted Lip]]\", illustrated by [[Sidney Paget]] 1891, a beggar playing a major role in a [[Sherlock Holmes]] adventure.")
![[[Louis Dewis]], "The Old Beggar", [[Bordeaux, France]], 1916](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/OldBeggar1.jpg?width=200 "[[Louis Dewis]], \"The Old Beggar\", [[Bordeaux, France]], 1916")
PRACTICE OF IMPLORING OTHERS TO GRANT A FAVOR WITH LITTLE OR NO EXPECTATION OF RECIPROCATION
Beggar; Spanging; Beggars; Panhandler; Beggers; Begger; Cadger; Spange; Beggary; Panhandlers; Mendicity; Beggardom; Beggarhood; Beggarliness; Begged; Begs; Cadge; Cadges; Cadged; Cadging; Beggars (history); Beggarwoman; Self-fundraising; 🤲; Penes (Ancient Greece); Ptochos
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A panhandler is a person who stops people in the street and asks them for food or money. (mainly AM INFORMAL; in BRIT, usually use beggar
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Beggary
PRACTICE OF IMPLORING OTHERS TO GRANT A FAVOR WITH LITTLE OR NO EXPECTATION OF RECIPROCATION
Beggar; Spanging; Beggars; Panhandler; Beggers; Begger; Cadger; Spange; Beggary; Panhandlers; Mendicity; Beggardom; Beggarhood; Beggarliness; Begged; Begs; Cadge; Cadges; Cadged; Cadging; Beggars (history); Beggarwoman; Self-fundraising; 🤲; Penes (Ancient Greece); Ptochos
·noun Beggarly appearance.
II. Beggary ·adj Beggarly.
III. Beggary ·noun The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.
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Panhandling
Pronunciation examples for panhandling
1. than panhandling on the corner.
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2. Are your solutions to panhandling working?
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3. rather than panhandling for the day.
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4. panhandling, the competency of our efforts to pave and clean
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5. nine years ago, was arrested for panhandling in a Walgreens.
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Examples of use of panhandling
1. ATLANTA –– Panhandling is now illegal in parts of downtown Atlanta.
2. Some argued the panhandling ban was an illegal limit on speech.
3. When approved, Atlanta would join cities including Orlando, Florida, and Indianapolis with no–panhandling zones.
4. Others say the fight against aggressive panhandling has racial overtones since most panhandlers are African–American.
5. Tuesday August 23, 2005 '÷16 AM ATLANTA (AP) – Panhandling is now illegal in parts of downtown Atlanta.