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  • noun Plural form of hand-me-down.

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Examples

  • Zoe’s always saying snarky stuff like that, and making fun of Summer’s hand-me-downs, which isn’t fair because when there are eight kids in your family and your parents are divorced and your mom is trying to make ends meet by running a diner, of course you’re going to wear your older sisters’ hand-me-downs.

    Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

  • Zoe’s always saying snarky stuff like that, and making fun of Summer’s hand-me-downs, which isn’t fair because when there are eight kids in your family and your parents are divorced and your mom is trying to make ends meet by running a diner, of course you’re going to wear your older sisters’ hand-me-downs.

    Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

  • Zoe’s always saying snarky stuff like that, and making fun of Summer’s hand-me-downs, which isn’t fair because when there are eight kids in your family and your parents are divorced and your mom is trying to make ends meet by running a diner, of course you’re going to wear your older sisters’ hand-me-downs.

    Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

  • Zoe’s always saying snarky stuff like that, and making fun of Summer’s hand-me-downs, which isn’t fair because when there are eight kids in your family and your parents are divorced and your mom is trying to make ends meet by running a diner, of course you’re going to wear your older sisters’ hand-me-downs.

    Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

  • He taught his four children to abstain from candy, forced them to share a single bicycle, and dressed them in hand-me-downs.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • My dad was a schoolteacher and I got hand-me-downs all the time.

    From the Dugout To the Cellar Melanie Grayce West 2012

  • We didn't have separate bedrooms; I wore my brothers' hand-me-downs.

    Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa's daughter remembers her father 2011

  • Yes | No | Report from mutt wrote 1 day 13 hours ago hand-me-downs from my grandpa's

    How did ya'll get your first gun? Was it a gift, a trade, or did you just buy it yourself? 2010

  • Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Sonowski described the furnishings as "high end, low end, hand-me-downs."

    Church Turned Condo 2011

  • She dished on her friendship with Karl Lagerfeld, how she keeps up with trends and her goddaughter, who gets all of her hand-me-downs.

    Diane Kruger Reveals Most Regrettable Style Moment (PHOTO) Hilary Moss 2011

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