1885 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 17 Oct. 2 New York is rather slow when playing baseball for the championship, but get her started at panhandling for a pedestal or a monument and she will capture the pennant every time.

1894 N.Y. Herald 8 Apr. 13/1 Little..comforts which an hour or two of industrious ‘panhandling’ will place within her reach.

1903 N.Y. Evening Post 9 Dec. 1 The prisoners were members of a ‘panhandling’ corporation which operated extensively throughout the financial district.

1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route viii. 84 Domestic panhandling, or hitting back doors,..seems to be on the decline.

1991 Descant Fall 150 She foresees the panhandling she'll do, the street walking, cold nights.

2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 14 Jan. 47/1 As Giuliani said of the city, ‘we were too busy’ to do anything about street prostitution, aggressive panhandling, graffiti, and low-level drug dealing on the street.

1884 Daily Gaz. (Fort Wayne, Indiana) 5 Sept. 8/2 A young lady, one of whose names is Cleveland, was baptized at the St. Joseph hospital yesterday. The infant ushered upon a cold and Pan-Handling world has a father, but now our pen pauses in paralytic fingers.

1907 G. V. Hobart Beat It! 69 Are you wise..to what the panhandling nobility of Europe are doing to our dear United States.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. p. xxxv/5 A poor art scholar..has his precious manuscript on Giotto destroyed by the panhandling Jewish refugee from Israel.

1991 N.Y. Mag. 9 Sept. 12/1 Cities that teem with panhandling bums and crack-crazed criminals.