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means Someone who asks strangers for money or food in public places, usually as a means of survival.

from From 'panhandle,' the verb — picture a beggar's arm extended with palm up and elbow bent, forming the shape of a pan's handle sticking out. The term emerged in American slang in the late 1800s, likely from hoboes and urban beggars, and the image stuck precisely because it's so visually exact: arm out, hand cupped, waiting to be filled.