Definitions for hand-me-downs

hand-me-downs hand-me-down

Spelling: [hand-mee-doun, han-]
IPA: /ˈhænd miˌdaʊn, ˈhæn-/

Hand-Me-Downs is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 675 anagrams from letters in hand-me-downs (--addehmnnosw).

Definitions for hand-me-downs

noun

  1. an article of clothing passed on to another person after being used, outgrown, etc.:
  2. any item not new that is or can be used again:

adjective

  1. passed along for further use by others:
  2. borrowed or adapted from other sources; derivative:

Origin of hand-me-downs

First recorded in 1870-75

Examples for hand-me-downs

The heaps of gifted and hand-me-down pink frilly clothes and accessories grew far faster than we were able to sort and store them.

You might not have been so cheap this year and accepted a hand-me-down (I mean ALL they want is the candy anyhow).

But the junk-dealers, second-hand men, and hand-me-down shop-keepers took in most of the goods.

These hand-me-down religions seldom fit, and professional theology, it seems to me, is mostly a dealing in ol' clo'.

It was, in all its sad irony, the vulgar "hand-me-down that!"

That's the flat truth, and I'd like to shake your Jake Kasker out of his suit of hand-me-down clothing.

The Socialist cook exchanged his greasy dungarees for a pair of hand-me-down creaseless serge pants.

Not only his clothes, but also his haircuts were hand-me-down.

He was of medium height, dressed fairly well in a hand-me-down, and sported a flaming red necktie.

I have no hand-me-down solution for that; it is the biggest problem that I know of, and I can venture only some suggestions.

Word Value for hand-me-downs
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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