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Hand-me-down   /hænd-mi-daʊn/   Listen
noun
hand-me-down  n.  An outgrown garment given to one person after use by another; usually transferred between members of a family or close friends; as, because she was the youngest of four girls, the clothes she wore were always hand-me-downs.


adjective
hand-me-down  adj.  
1.
Obtained or used after prior use by another person. Note: the term hand-me-down is often used of clothing previously worn by older family members. The term may also be used metaphorically of ideas.
Synonyms: hand-down, secondhand, used.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Hand-me-down" Quotes from Famous Books



... thrown out of the balloon, and went with trembling limbs and beating heart to pick it up, believing that it was a command from on high to sinners, and found that it was nothing but a hand bill for a Chicago hand-me-down clothing store. ...
— Peck's Sunshine - Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, - Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 • George W. Peck
... en route to New York. Section 5, Sleeper Tonawanda, Phoebe Snow. Brown, smooth-shaved, hand-me-down suit, cowboy hat. From Butte, Montana. Has sold his mine, the Copper-bottom (on right of trail northeast of Anaconda). Former partner, Frank Short, killed by powder explosion at Bozeman, two years ago. Appendix subjoined with partial ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes


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