spange

Verb

spange (third-person singular simple present spanges, present participle spanging, simple past and past participle spanged)

1. (US, intransitive) To beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?”
   • I don’t spange much because I really don’t like doing it. I eat out of trash cans a lot.1996, Tim “Salvage”, quoted in Ian Fisher, “Erin’s looking for Leg-Rub Steve. Fly’s looking for CD’s to steal. Star’s looking for Jaya. And it’s starting to get cold.”
   • Then my father would send all us kids out to ‘spange’ [beg for spare change]. You could sometimes make $50 a day by spanging. Other days you might make a dollar.2009, Kelly Myers, 33, quoted in Joe Deegan, “Nowhere To Go”, San Diego Reader