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panhandler

/pan-han-dl/US // ˈpænˌhæn dl //UK // (ˈpænˌhændəl) //

流浪汉,乞丐,乞讨者,抢劫犯

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the handle of a pan.
    • : a long, narrow, projecting strip of territory that is not a peninsula, especially such a part of a specified state: the panhandle of Alaska; the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Perhaps in response to the panhandler, perhaps not, a teenage girl sitting nearby thanks me for my service.

  • This is not what the panhandler wishes to hear and she continues through the subway car.

  • Obedient to the young woman's request, the panhandler waited.

  • Nothing, however, seemed further from the panhandler's thoughts than flight.

  • The kind of walk you adopt when you want to pretend you can't see a panhandler, or don't want to get involved in a street-fight.

  • It struck her, too, that despite his panhandler's manner this man was yet in a fashion different.

  • You're nose gets as red as a rear light on an automobile or the beak of a Park Row panhandler.