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basket case
noun- a person who is emotionally debilitated US, 1952
- After forcing himself (and his “eccentricity”) upon a six-year-old basket case (a victim of pregnancy tranquilizers) he is found out[.] — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 195, 1961
- [T]he whole thing was making a young girl who wasn’t too bright to being with into some kind of a daffy basket case. — George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire, p. 149, 1981
- But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain and an athlete and a basket case, a princess and a criminal. — The Breakfast Club, 1985
- I don’t know about you, but I’m gonna be a basket case just sitting home waiting to hear what happened. — Avalon, 1990
- You’re a basket case. — Sleepless in Seattle, 1993
- any dysfunctional organisation or entity UK, 1973
- “Madagascar is the basket case of the Indian Ocean,” said a senior Western banker[.] — New York Times, p. D11, 28 December 1981
- Romania, the East bloc’s basket case No. 2, recently asked Western bankers to reschedule 25 percent of its outstanding debt. — Christian Science Monitor, p. 5, 16 November 1981
- — J. E. Lighter, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, p. 100, 1994
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