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PANHANDLER
Definition of PANHANDLER
noun
One who panhandles; an urban beggar who typically stands on a street with an outstretched container in hand, begging for loose change or money.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Obscure. Speculative. Panhandling always seems to involve a container for receiving loose change, so perhaps the term refers to a small handled pan, or to the container as the pan and the arm(s) holding it as the handle. Alternatively, possibly from the notion that the shape of one's outstretched arm in relation to a seated or squatting beggar brings to mind the image of a panhandle.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PANHANDLER · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PANHANDLER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PANHANDLER starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AADEHLNNPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and N appear more than once.
Words that start PANHAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PANHANDLER?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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