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basket
noun- a despicable person; used as a euphemism for “bastard” UK, 1936
- “Until some smart basket got the idea of having a push-button Navy”, growled the Chief. — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 11, 1962
- Stingy convict basket. Just as well I nicked his transitor and camera! — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry, p. 1, 1968
- the male genitals as seen through tight trousers US, 1941
- A young fellow in a very tight-fitting pair of faded blue jeans walks in. Eyes follow him. "Oh my God! What a basket!" a young man shrills in feminine-like voice. — Willard Motely, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 246, 1958
- A Lexicon of Homosexual Slang — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 261, 1963
- — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 26, 1967
- What a low-cut gown to a faggot must be is like tight Levis with a padded basket. — Lenny Bruce, The Essential Lenny Bruce, p. 161, 1967
- [I]t is fashionable to be able to show your legs, your “basket,” and your arse. — Angelo d’Arcangelo, The Homosexual Handbook, p. 65, 1968
- So underplay your baskets, which is the fashion of the season among the Too-Beautiful People. Sic transit big cocks on display. — Screw, p. 15, 22 December 1969
- Basket Bazaar [Advertisement for film] — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 44, 12 August 1970
- Sure, you lock eyes while you’re pounding the pavement, looking for a lay or love or both, but let’s face it, the focal point is the crotch. In gay parlance, the basket. — John Francis Hunter, The Gay Insider, p. 119, 1971
- Did he have a basket, it was like walking into safeway — Bruce Rodgers, The Queens’ Vernacular, 1972
- The local men have short hair and wear wild-looking Hawaiian-style sports shirts with wide baggy pants which totally disguise their baskets. — Gore Vidal, Myron, p. 252, 1974
- “Oh ...” He laughed, hopping back into the stall. “I’m wire-brushing my basket. See?” — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 123, 1978
- And don’t think I didn’t see you checkin’ out that man’s basket!. — Boys on the Side, 1995
- — Attitude, July 2003: “Old palare lexicon”
- a woman’s labia US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 17, 1949
- an elderly woman UK, 1984
Disrespectful; possibly deriving from a play on OLD BAG - in roulette, a bet on zero, double zero and two US, 1983
Sometimes expanded to “basket bet”. - — Thomas L. Clark, The Dictionary of Gambling and Gaming, p. 14, 1987
▶ the baskets
basketball US- “Very few bookmakers get into the baskets seriously.” — Nicholas Pileggi, Wise Guy, p. 195, 1985
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