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noun

hand-out, handout n.

Money or an object given in or as in a charitable gesture; also used of government disbursements to individuals for welfare; as, government hand-outs to welfare clients.

A printed circular distributed gratis, usually for political or advertising purposes.

A printed statement distributed, usually to the news media.

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Etymology of 'Hand-out'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hand-out" Quotes from Famous Books

... deliberation. "Josh Wiseman handed that out. Josh reckons he's seen them, and recognized them. But Josh is a big souse. He's seeing things 'most all the time. He figgers the feller young Alec shot up was one of them—by name Peter Hara, of 'Frisco. The other, we haven't seen, he reckons is 'Hand-out' Lal. Another 'Frisco bum. But the police have had the wires going, and they can't track fellers of that name in 'Frisco, or anywhere else. Still, it's a trail they're hanging to amongst others. And I guess they're not quitting ...

— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum

... dusk blended into the night, after they had supped upon a handout that he had begged at a farm house, Kansas Shorty pointed his hand in the direction of some oaks which were growing some distance from the highway and told Jim that beneath the tallest of them was the place where they were to meet ...

— The Trail of the Tramp • A-No. 1 (AKA Leon Ray Livingston)