spange
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /speɪnd͡ʒ/
Verb

spange (spanges, present participle spanging; past and past participle spanged)

  1. (US) to beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?”
    • 1996, Tim “Salvage”, quoted in Ian Fisher, “Erin’s looking for Leg-Rub Steve. Fly’s looking for CD’s to steal. Star’s looking for Jaya. And it’s starting to get cold.”
      I don’t spange much because I really don’t like doing it. I eat out of trash cans a lot.
    • 2009, Kelly Myers, 33, quoted in Joe Deegan, “Nowhere To Go ↗”, San Diego Reader
      Then my father would send all us kids out to ‘spange’ [beg for spare change]. You could sometimes make $50 a day by spanging. Other days you might make a dollar.



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