hand-me-up

noun

1
an item such as a phone that is passed on from a child to a parent or other older person because it is no longer up to date enough
I’m using my hand-me-up 2007 Mac book my daughter unloaded on me.
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United Kingdom on 25/04/2014
Open Dictionary - April2014
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There is evidence for use of the term hand-me-up as far back as the 1980s, where it was originally associated with the idea of passing on articles of clothing from children to their parents or older members of their family. Just as younger children conventionally suffer the sometimes humiliating experience of wearing the hand-me-down clothes of their older siblings, often as an economy, in the same way parents have been incorporating their children’s clothes into their wardrobe to compensate for the wasteful habits of fashion-conscious teenagers. A father who is not so selective about fit or fashion wears the hand-me-up T-shirt of his son, declaring that it is ‘like new’. A mother talks about her most fashionable outfit consisting of hand-me-ups from her oldest daughter. There is also evidence for use of hand-me-up as a ditransitive verb, as in:
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单词	hand-me-up
释义	hand-me-up noun DEFINITIONS1 1 an item such as a phone that is passed on from a child to a parent or other older person because it is no longer up to date enough I’m using my hand-me-up 2007 Mac book my daughter unloaded on me. Submitted from: United Kingdom on 25/04/2014 Open Dictionary - April2014 Featured as a BuzzWord! There is evidence for use of the term hand-me-up as far back as the 1980s, where it was originally associated with the idea of passing on articles of clothing from children to their parents or older members of their family. Just as younger children conventionally suffer the sometimes humiliating experience of wearing the hand-me-down clothes of their older siblings, often as an economy, in the same way parents have been incorporating their children’s clothes into their wardrobe to compensate for the wasteful habits of fashion-conscious teenagers. A father who is not so selective about fit or fashion wears the hand-me-up T-shirt of his son, declaring that it is ‘like new’. A mother talks about her most fashionable outfit consisting of hand-me-ups from her oldest daughter. There is also evidence for use of hand-me-up as a ditransitive verb, as in: Read more Noun☞hand-me-up
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