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Hand me ups

Hand me ups - When your younger siblings outgrow you and start giving you their clothes, socks and shoes etc that doesn't fit them.
"You don't realise how much they have grown until they give you stuff that doesn't fit them anymore. I call them hand me ups"
by Erinairi December 30, 2013
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hand me ups

A pair of pants a person wears that are so tight it looks like they are wearing their little sisters pants.
Hand me ups are usually worn by individuals who are "emo"

opposite of hand me downs
The depressed emo boy was beat up at school for wearing hand me ups. Not by his peers, but by his little sister for taking and wearing her pants without asking.

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by johnnystockness June 27, 2009
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Every family from the great depression to the current one knows the secret of the hand me down. Long used as a survival tool the method of handing down clothes with that "worn in look," has saved families money for years. The hand me up is typically a result of the younger generation of children either being better bred or better fed. Either way they are giving back to those who came before them.
The kid who listened to Baby Einstein in the womb and ate from his parents organic farm gave his older cousin a pair of hand me ups, his barely worn boots he had grown out of that would require some growing into by his older cousin.
by JcubnotJache December 15, 2009
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hand-me-ups

A pair of pants a person wears that are so tight it appears as though they borrowed them from their little sister.

Hand-me-ups are usually worn by individuals who are "emo"
The depressed emo boy was beat up at school for wearing hand-me-ups. Not by his peers, but by his little sister for taking her pants without asking.

pants tight non-heterosexual ridiculous emo sister rainbow
by johnnystockness June 27, 2009
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handmeups

The clothing suburban woman with adult children in college wear which their children have cast off or left at home. Items include hoodies with private school logos, ripped jeans or last season's Ugg boots.
Last year it was all Lululemon leggings. This year, it's all handmeups from her daughter Madison who's away at Tulane.
by Riversideways February 5, 2024
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