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What (who) is basket case - definition
basket case
(basket cases)
1.
If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state. (INFORMAL)
The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.
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2.
If you describe someone as a basket case, you think that they are insane. (INFORMAL)
You're going to think I'm a basket case when I tell you this.
= nutcase
N-COUNT [disapproval]
basket case
¦ noun informal a person or thing regarded as useless or unable to cope.
Origin
early 20th cent.: orig. US sl. denoting a soldier who had lost all four limbs.
Basket Case 3: The Progeny
1992 FILM BY FRANK HENENLOTTER
Basket Case 3
Basket Case 3: The Progeny is a 1991 American comedy horror slasher film written and directed by Frank Henenlotter. It is the third and final installment of the Basket Case series.
Examples of use of basket case
1. "It is not the basket case that the council suggests.
2. He said: "The business was becoming a basket case.
3. The country has been described as an economic basket case.
4. "The Massachusetts economy was a basket case when Mitt Romney took office," Fehrnstrom said.
5. Russia will again become the economic basket case it was in the 1''0s.