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second hand
[ sek-uhnd hand sek-uhnd hand ]
noun
- the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
- an assistant or helper, as to a worker or foreman.
second-hand
1adjective
- previously owned or used
- not from an original source or experience
- dealing in or selling goods that are not new
a second-hand car dealer
adverb
- from a source of previously owned or used goods
he prefers to buy second-hand
- not directly
he got the news second-hand
second hand
2noun
- a pointer on the face of a timepiece that indicates the seconds Compare hour hand minute hand
Word History and Origins
Origin of second hand1
Idioms and Phrases
- at second hand, from or through an intermediate source or means; secondhand:
She had the news at second hand.
More idioms and phrases containing second hand
see at second hand .Example Sentences
But the amount of second-hand evidence, Vieira says, is too great to believe that nothing more solid will show up.
When I was ten, I saved enough money to buy a second-hand book called Tarzan of the Apes.
The ground floors are occupied by shops of second-hand dealers, and by iron workers.
For warmth she wore some kind of white fur wrap she had found months ago at a second-hand store in New York.
The defense objected to the second-hand testimony and the nine-man, seven-woman jury was ushered from the room.
On his head was the second-hand hat of some parvenu's coachman, gold lace, cockade and all.
And he would cower in the background blushing his absurd little blushes at his second-hand temerity.
The librarian told me I'd never find a copy, and this was on top of a pile of trash in a second-hand shop right here in this town.
At his cell door the Red Fox stood with his watch in his hand and his eyes glued to the second-hand.
Tarbell, through his hold upon the welshing Clanahan striker, had got the details at second-hand.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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