If someone panhandles, they stop people in the street and ask them for food or money. Many of these street people seemed to support themselves by panhandling and doing odd jobs There was also a guy panhandling for quarters. + panhandling pan·han·dling Sergeant Rivero says arrests for panhandling take place every day. a long, thin area of land that sticks out from a larger area. to ask for money in the streets = beg
a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area; "Wheeling is located in the northern panhandle of West Virginia" beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money
{i} portion of a pan that one grips or holds; narrow piece of land that is mostly surrounded by the territory of one or more other countries (or states, cities, etc.)