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hand⋅bas⋅ket

[hand-bas-kit, -bah-skit]
–noun
1. a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
2. go to hell in a handbasket, to degenerate quickly and decisively: The economy has gone to hell in a handbasket.

Origin:
1485–95; hand + basket
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handbasket

noun
a container that is usually woven and has handles [syn: basket
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