Not brand new

The answer

USED

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

Used 25 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Hand-me-down - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Like hand-me-downs - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• 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.

• Not fooled by - ONTO, used 444 times
• Not as much - LESS, used 378 times
• "What ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 224 times
• "So what ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 221 times
• If not - ELSE, used 199 times
• Not "fer" - AGIN, used 181 times

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