What is "thirdhand"

Usage examples of "thirdhand".

And even if there were, the Mnemonist knew that they would be useless for his purpose, for they would be too much in love with living to settle for secondhand and thirdhand experience on his pallet.

To one who always experienced everything second- or thirdhand, even a very limited life in an organic body is liberation.

Mosquitoes whined, sweat ran, Prairie kept waking up every couple hours, all the way back to her old baby ways, partygoers bellowed and shrieked, distant muffled explosions ripped the night, the worst stations on the dial played background music, dogs contended in the beaten mud shadows for thirdhand remnants of road kills.

She was dressed in thirdhand clothing-a shabby baseball cap, a pale blue quilted jacket, and heavy boots two sizes too large.

And so our teachers, who were just the usual babbling drudges from the House of Scholars, served us up a foggy thirdhand mix of rumor, legend, and guesswork which was just about as close to useless as anything could be.

We bought all the gear we could in Salt Lake, on the net, or Up Top -- if you arrived on Mars without some critical piece of equipment you could plan on paying top dollar for thirdhand junk.

She pushed her around the streets to the local park in a thirdhand stroller given to her by Ranier House, and she fed her and bathed her and dressed her up in the free hand-out clothes, as if she were a little doll.

I have no proof of that except for what Rick tells me, and that has to be second- or thirdhand information.