panhandled

Verb

panhandle (third-person singular simple present panhandles, present participle panhandling, simple past and past participle panhandled)

1. (US, intransitive) To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, as a homeless or vagrant person.
   • I had a white cane, but I never used it. Once, alone and lost in downtown Washington, I unfolded it, immediately sweating as I felt hundreds of eyes shift onto me. A man who was panhandling grabbed me and showed me the way home.2014 May 30, Will Butler, “The Mark of Cane”, in The New York Times Magazine
2. (figuratively, transitive, uncommon) To elicit; to attempt to obtain or provoke a certain response or answer.

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