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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hand-me-downadjective

    outgrown garment passed down from one person to another

  2. hand-me-down, hand-downadjective

    passed on from one person to another

    "not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes"

GCIDE

  1. hand-me-downnoun

    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.

Wiktionary

  1. hand-me-downnoun

    An item that is passed along for someone else to use; especially, a piece of clothing or other item which has been outgrown by a older sibling and passed down to a younger one.

  2. hand-me-downadjective

    Used or second-hand, passed along by its prior user

Wikipedia

  1. hand-me-down

    Used goods mean any item of personal property offered for sale not as new, including metals in any form except coins that are legal tender, but excluding books, magazines, and postage stamps.

ChatGPT

  1. hand-me-down

    A hand-me-down is an item, often clothing or an object, that is given to someone after being used or owned by someone else, typically a family member or close acquaintance. It is often associated with things given to younger siblings or children by their older counterparts.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hand-me-down in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hand-me-down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of hand-me-down in a Sentence

  1. Rhonda Jones:

    My first cap was in 1998 against Estonia when we still wore men's hand-me-down strips, attendances were poor, there was little to no marketing, governing body support was poor and therefore there was little interest in women's football.


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