spange

verb /speɪnd͡ʒ/

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

   intransitive

   I don’t spange much because I really don’t like doing it. I eat out of trash cans a lot.

   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.”

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry spange (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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