Usually means: Clothing passed on to others.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word hand-me-down:

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  1. hand-me-down: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hand-me-down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hand-me-down: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hand-me-down, hand-me-down: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hand-me-down: Vocabulary.com
  6. hand-me-down: Wordnik
  7. hand-me-down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hand-me-down: Wiktionary
  9. hand-me-down: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hand-me-down: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hand-me-down: Dictionary.com
  12. hand-me-down: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. hand-me-down: Rhymezone
  14. hand-me-down: Free Dictionary
  15. hand-me-down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. hand-me-down: Dictionary/thesaurus

(Note: See hand-me-downs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hand-me-down)

noun:  An item that is passed along for someone else to use.
noun:  (especially) A piece of clothing or other item which has been outgrown by an older sibling and passed down to a younger one.
adjective:  Used or second-hand, passed along by its prior user.
verb:  (rare) To pass along to someone else.

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