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panhandles

panhandles is the plural of panhandle.

panhandles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of panhandle.

Meaning of panhandle

Noun

panhandle (plural panhandles)

  1. The handle of a pan.
  2. (US) An area within a nation or subnational division that appears to stick out or project when viewed on a map; an especially elongated salient.
  3. The handle that activates an ejector seat.
    • The Captain Keith Handscomb was the occupant of that ejector seat and the only survivor; his narrow escape was by just being able to reach the seat panhandle with his third and fourth fingers of his left hand.2007, Roger Brooks, Handley Page Victor, volume 2

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Questions about panhandles

What is panhandles the plural of?
Panhandles is the plural of panhandle.

Words near panhandles in the dictionary

  1. panhandle track
  2. panhandle tracks
  3. panhandled
  4. panhandler
  5. panhandlers
  6. panhandles
  7. panhandling
  8. panhandlings
  9. Panhard
  10. panharmonicon
  11. panharmonicons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: panhandles (page history and authors); panhandle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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