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PANHANDLE definition: 1. a long, thin piece of land joined to a larger area: 2. to ask strangers (= people that you do…. Learn more.
The meaning of PANHANDLE is a narrow projection of a larger territory (such as a state). How to use panhandle in a sentence.
PANHANDLE meaning: 1. a long, thin piece of land joined to a larger area: 2. to ask strangers (= people that you do…. Learn more.
Feb 22, 2019 · Panhandle is not a peninsula but rather a narrow extension of a geographical area such as a sovereign state or a subnational entity. The difference between a panhandle, also known as a salient, and a peninsula is that the panhandle is not bordered by water on any three sides.
3 meanings: 1. (in the US) a narrow strip of land that projects from one state into another 2. (in a South African city) a plot.... Click for more definitions.
To panhandle is to beg for money outside, on a public street. Someone who needs money to buy a bus ticket home might panhandle. When people panhandle, they ask passers-by for cash. A man who's lost his job might panhandle so he can get something to eat. and a college student might panhandle on a busy street for money to buy a ticket to a concert.
Panhandle definition: the handle of a pan.. See examples of PANHANDLE used in a sentence.
(Definition of panhandle from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of panhandle in Chinese (Traditional)
a narrow piece of land that sticks out from the main part of a state, like the handle of a pan. Two well-known examples are the Florida panhandle and the Oklahoma panhandle, both of which stick out to the north-west of their states.
the handle of a pan. (sometimes cap.) a long, narrow, projecting strip of territory that is not a peninsula, esp. such a part of a specified state: the panhandle of Alaska; the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. pan1 + handle 1855–60. pan•han•dle2 (pan′ han′dl), v., -dled, -dling.
