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Definition of panhandle : The handle of a pan; hence, fig., any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.

Synonyms:

cadge, mooch, appeal, claim, order, ask for, plead, invite, demand, ask alms, insist on something, beg, bum, request

Usage examples:

• Edison says that while apparently a quiet man in bearing, Ellsworth, after the excitement of fighting, found the tameness of a telegraph office obnoxious, and that he became a bad " gun man" in the Panhandle of Texas, where he was killed. - "Edison, His Life and Inventions", Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin.
• " Him an' th' Deacon was killed over in th' Panhandle," he said. - "Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up Bar-20", Clarence Edward Mulford.
• This mature biography treats of important developments pertaining to ranching in the Texas Panhandle. - "Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest", J. Frank Dobie.