| basket case | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person who is suffering from extreme nervous strain; nervous wreck |
| 2. | taboo chiefly (US), (Canadian) a person who has had both arms and both legs amputated |
| 3. | a. someone or something that is incapable of functioning normally |
| b. (as modifier): a basket-case economy | |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
basket case definition
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