Like hand-me-downs

The answer

USED

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the USED answer page.

Used 22 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• PREWORN (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for USED

Every other clue in this collection answered by USED, most used first.

• Secondhand - used 291 times, most recently in 2026
• Pre-owned - used 145 times, most recently in 2026
• Not new - used 132 times, most recently in 2026
• Previously owned - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
• Took advantage of - used 81 times, most recently in 2025
• Employed - used 63 times, most recently in 2025
• Preowned - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• No longer new - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• Second-hand - used 34 times, most recently in 2022
• Exploited - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Kind of car - used 25 times, most recently in 2016
• Manipulated - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Not brand new - used 25 times, most recently in 2023
• Hand-me-down - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Played for a sap - used 22 times, most recently in 2019
• Put to work - used 22 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Like ___ of bricks - ATON, used 201 times
• Hand over - CEDE, used 187 times
• Fly like an eagle - SOAR, used 141 times
• At hand - NEAR, used 139 times
• Upper hand - EDGE, used 133 times
• Like some vaccines - ORAL, used 103 times

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