spange

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spange

  • /speɪnd͡ʒ/

Rhymes with -eɪndʒ

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Blend of spare + change, from stereotyped phrase “spare change?”, “[can you] spare any change?”

verb spanges · spanging · spanged

  1. US, intransitive 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.

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@misc{spange_2026,
  title = {spange},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spange},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}