Hand Me Down

Word HAND ME DOWN
Character 12
Hyphenation hand-me-down
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Hand Me Down"

What do we mean by hand me down?

Handed down to one person after being used and discarded by another. adjective

Of inferior quality; shabby. adjective

Something, such as an article of clothing, that is passed on from one person to another. noun

Same as reach-me-down.

Obtained or used after prior use by another person. adjective

An outgrown garment given to one person after use by another; -- usually transferred between members of a family or close friends. noun

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. noun

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

Passed on from one person to another adjective

Outgrown garment passed down from one person to another noun

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

Particularly anything that has been handed down from one person to another. Preferably known as "cheap" Urban Dictionary

"Hand me downs" are items, usually clothing, that's passed down from one person to another. It's especially common growing up in a poor/lower middle class family, where your older brother/sister gave you their clothes when they grew out of them. Urban Dictionary

Hand-me-down in the context of talking about a girl or guy in which a friend or colleague has/wants/is with: the term is used when someone has been plunged by you and your friend is now plunging her/him. The term shares a similar meaning to sloppy-seconds. Urban Dictionary

The act of directly unrolling a condom off ones mans erect penis onto the erect penis of another man. Urban Dictionary

Used to describe a male or female of whom one has had sexual relations with, and has passed along to their younger friend or relative. Urban Dictionary

When an old collegue leaves and his deals come in and the deals are transferred into another persons name who did fuck all on it Urban Dictionary

When you are feeling your penis begin to erect and put your hands in your pockets and hold down the erection so no one can notice Urban Dictionary

A gesture of kindness between two Downriver gentlemen where a used condom is recycled by "shaking out" the ejaculate and handed to a friend or acquaintance to be recycled for a sexual encounter. Urban Dictionary

When you put a watermelon in the microwave, fuck it, and then bury it in the back yard and your family eats its seedlings. Urban Dictionary

A girl who dates a guy and he hands her down to his friend and he hands her down to his friend and he hands her dow to his friend and so on. Urban Dictionary

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The word "hand-me-down" in example sentences

I could feel my hands on the rubber grips on the handlebars as I swung my leg over the seat and rode that bike right out of the shop, pedaling really fast—not like on the one-speed, little-kid, hand-me-down bike from my brother. ❋ Joseph Pierce Farrell (2011)

Yes, she got her Dad's hand-me-down as we can download via the Kindle app on our iPhones and iPads. ❋ Eileen Wacker (2011)

The idea of deserving versus underserving poor is a hand-me-down from the Protestant/English work ethic that has a long history of ignoring the poorest and denigrating them to squalor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the earliest Oz related toys I can remember was a damaged Wizard of Oz boardgame, that was hand-me-down from my older sisters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Such fiction may otherwise seem "standard" in its use of all of the hand-me-down practices of traditional narrative, but it's still full of "finely wrought prose, vivid characters, delectable details," as Shriver puts it a few paragraph later. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She also types up the weekly church bulletin and plays Santa dressed in a hand-me-down red velvet suit and shiny new white beard. ❋ Nancy Ruhling (2011)

It was back to using my four-fingered, hand-me-down glove. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)

When a kid gets a pair of Nike sneakers that are new rather than somebody's hand-me-down, that to them is like they've reached nirvana. ❋ Melanie Grayce West (2011)

Imagine her wearing old secondhand hand-me-down clothes. ❋ Julia DeVillers (2011)

Every day I will reinvent the dress with layers, accessories and all kinds of accouterments, the majority of which will be vintage, hand-made, or hand-me-down goodies ... ❋ The Nag (2009)

On my team you got a hand-me-down polyester potato sack that smelled like B.O. and egg salad. ❋ Jason Gay (2011)

And Kim had me come right over to her house so she could load me up with all of these hand-me-down baby clothes that had belonged to her kids. ❋ Sherrie Daly (2011)

"I think a lot of grooms are going to be digging around in their mothers' jewelry boxes for hand-me-down rings," says Carley Romey, editor in chief of weddings website TheKnot. ❋ Brett Arends (2011)

Dannel Malloy travels usually via a state-owned Lincoln Mercury, a hand-me-down from his predecessor, M. ❋ Lisa Fleisher (2011)

One of the things—what used to be a black teenager in a dirty Allen Iverson 76ers jersey and a pair of hand-me-down Jordans—feeds on a fake-tanned white guy in a slick black convertible. ❋ Max Brallier (2011)

But unlike used mitts and bats, you can't exactly pass off a broken board or pair of tattered, hole-ridden shoes as a hand-me-down; even the Goodwill and Play It Again Sports have standards. ❋ Kevin Duffel (2011)

"Mick McCarthy will be fighting to the bitter death but at the end it's all about quality" was Hansen's verdict on Wolves' defeat by Aston Villa, which he'd just seen on TV, just like we had, and Hansen has a wonderful ruined potency these days, his circuit boards dulled by repetition but somehow puttering away all the same like a much venerated hand-me-down petrol lawnmower still grandly chugging through its robot gears. ❋ Unknown (2012)

"Look at this dude walking into the club with these [hand me down] shoes on." "Boy please, were in so much poverty right now that the closes thing you will get to Jordan's is [your father's] [hand me downs] back from class of 86'" ❋ Mr. Swank (2010)

[My mom] said I would [grow out] of this shirt size in a year, so she gave me [my brother's] hand me downs. ❋ Letshaveapizzaparty (2015)

Person 1: I had sex with person 2 last [week] [Person 3]: you had sex with my [hand-me-down] ❋ Urbanator5000 (2022)

While [running a train], Jimmy [ran out] of [condoms] and received a "Hand Me Down" from Mark. ❋ RagingSquirrel (2010)

[Fundo] got tired of his girlfriend [cheating] on him, so he turned her into a hand me down whore, and sold her to his [younger cousin]. ❋ AuthOOr (2006)

When an old collegue leaves and his [deals] come in and the deals are transferred into another persons name who did [fuck all] on it means [Hand me Downs] ❋ BB3G (2010)

"Hey what is that kid doing?" -hot girl "Oh he saw you and now has to [hand me down] the erection you gave him so no one can notice it [bulging] through his [basketball shorts]." -friend ❋ Gingercat444 (2014)

"Dude, I blew all of my cash on Bud-Light and this dope-ass Darren [McCarty] Wings jersey. Do you mind [wringing] out your [snake skin] after you pipe Crystal and hooking me up with the old Downriver Hand-Me-Down? Debbie won't let me bang her without a rubber after I gave her crabs." ❋ Lazynugz (2019)

[Jimmy] [served] "[hand me down watermelon]" at thanksgivings this year. ❋ Cflownasty (2018)

[Becca] is a [hand-me-down-bitch]. She [dated] John then his friend Bill, then his friend Tom. ❋ Homooo... (2011)

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