Definition of "panhandled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of panhandle. (verb)

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• "Maybe it was as simple as John Huston's American in Tampico rebuffing Bogart's mooch in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with "From now on you have to make your way in life without my assistance" after being successfully hit-up by Bogie twice before and now panhandled a third time."
• "According to the Stiglitz-Sachs theory, decisive and benevolent dictators powered by massive amounts of panhandled Western aid could pull Ethiopia and Africa out of the darkness of poverty into the sunshine of development."
• "They panhandled, got into fights, and put a burden on the encampment's fragile network of security and system of sanitation."