Fetch-me-down
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hand-me-down
modifier
: apair of hand-me-down pants/ fetch-me-down ski boots
noun
Something, esp clothing, used by one person and then passed to another, esp to a younger sibling: I wore mostly my brother’s hand-me-downs (1874+)
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