Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective same as
hand-me-down .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb passed on, as by inheritance
- adjective passed on from one person to another
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Examples
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More importantly, public food assistance programs to ensure food security is more than a 'hand-down,' but rather a critical 'hand-up' in upward mobility -- a hand-up to better nutrition and greater societal economic benefits.
Eric Ding, Ph.D.: What Hunger Really Means In The U.S. Ph.D. Eric Ding 2011
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Carter, at his best as a hand-down end, has struggled to become comfortable as a stand-up player who must drop into coverage.
Lorenzo Alexander starts at outside linebacker for the Washington Redskins, in place of Andre Carter Jason Reid 2010
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More importantly, public food assistance programs to ensure food security is more than a 'hand-down,' but rather a critical 'hand-up' in upward mobility -- a hand-up to better nutrition and greater societal economic benefits.
Eric Ding, Ph.D.: What Hunger Really Means In The U.S. Ph.D. Eric Ding 2011
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More importantly, public food assistance programs to ensure food security is more than a 'hand-down,' but rather a critical 'hand-up' in upward mobility -- a hand-up to better nutrition and greater societal economic benefits.
Eric Ding, Ph.D.: What Hunger Really Means In The U.S. Ph.D. Eric Ding 2011
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Tea baggers are hand-down, without a doubt, the biggest bunch of whiney cry-babies to enter the partisan melee.
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More importantly, public food assistance programs to ensure food security is more than a 'hand-down,' but rather a critical 'hand-up' in upward mobility -- a hand-up to better nutrition and greater societal economic benefits.
Eric Ding, Ph.D.: What Hunger Really Means In The U.S. Ph.D. Eric Ding 2011
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Carter, at his best as a hand-down end, has struggled to become comfortable as a stand-up player who must drop into coverage.
Lorenzo Alexander starts over Andre Carter at OLB Jason Reid 2010
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The thing is, I need a new Scattante about as much as Prolly needs another fitted cap, or as much as Stevil needs another beer hand-down, or as much as Fatty needs another ham and cheese croissant.
This Just In: I'm Giving Away A Free Bike Because I Don't Need It! BikeSnobNYC 2010
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The thing is, I need a new Scattante about as much as Prolly needs another fitted cap, or as much as Stevil needs another beer hand-down, or as much as Fatty needs another ham and cheese croissant.
Archive 2010-01-01 BikeSnobNYC 2010
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It's a hand-down, from my older brother, and I have never lost a deer I shot with it.
.270 vs. 2007
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