hand-me-down vs used

hand-me-down

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

verb
  • To pass along to someone else. 

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. 

used

adj
  • Familiar through use; usual; accustomed. 

  • That is or has or have been used. 

  • That has or have previously been owned by someone else. 

verb
  • To perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]. 

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