25B6; adjective
second-hand clothes : USED, old, worn, pre-owned, handed-down, hand-me-down, cast-off; Brit. informal reach-me-down.
second-hand information : INDIRECT, derivative; vicarious.
new, direct.
25B6; adverb I was discounting anything I heard second-hand : INDIRECTLY, at second-hand, on the bush telegraph; informal on the grapevine.
directly.