hand-me-down vs secondhand

hand-me-down

noun
  • A piece of clothing or other item which has been outgrown by an older sibling and passed down to a younger one. 

  • An item that is passed along for someone else to use. 

verb
  • To pass along to someone else. 

adj
  • Used or second-hand, passed along by its prior user. 

secondhand

noun
  • Secondhand goods (especially clothes) collectively. 

adj
  • inhaled from the air near someone else smoking. 

  • Not new; previously owned and used by another. 

  • Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand. 

  • Dealing in such merchandise. 

adv
  • In a used or previously-owned condition. 

  • indirectly 

How often have the words hand-me-down and secondhand occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )