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Hand-me-down

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Noun

1. hand-me-down

outgrown garment passed down from one person to another

Adjective

2. hand-down, hand-me-down

passed on from one person to another

Example Sentences:
'not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hand-me-down

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noun informal
1. 
a. 
something, esp an outgrown garment, passed down from one person to another
b. 
(as modifier)
a hand-me-down dress
2. 
a. 
anything that has already been used by another
b. 
(as modifier)
hand-me-down ideas

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Hand-me-down

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noun
1.  Informal
something, esp. an article of clothing, which is used and then passed along to someone else
adjective Informal
2. 
used; secondhand
3. 
ready-made and cheap

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hand-me-down

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adj.
1. Handed down to one person after being used and discarded by another.
2. Of inferior quality; shabby.
n.
Something, such as an article of clothing, that is passed on from one person to another.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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