spange

发音

CA /speɪnd͡ʒ/

词形变化

spanged spanges 三单 spanges spanging spanging 现在分词 spanged 过去式 spanged 过去分词

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    To beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?”

    美国 不及物

    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.

词源

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

来源：wiktionary