Sekirov Dictionary

hand-me-down

noun 2
adjective 1
verb 1
forms 3

noun2

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An item that is passed along for someone else to use.
- Well, I'm willing, I'm able, I'm practically much alive / Well, I'm six-feet-tall, I ain't no hand-me-down — 1948
A piece of clothing or other item which has been outgrown by an older sibling and passed down to a younger one.

adjective1

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Used or second-hand, passed along by its prior user.
- And what costume shall the poor girl wear / To all tomorrow's parties? / A hand-me-down dress from who knows where — 1967

verb1

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(rare) To pass along to someone else.
- “See into life, don’t just look at it” is her [Anne Baxter’s] creditable credo, hand-me-downed from her famous architect grandfather, the late Frank Lloyd Wright. — 1963

forms

hand-me-downed · hand-me-downing · hand-me-downs

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