basket case

The phrase has its roots in WW2. When a soldier came into a medical facility with a limb or multiple limbs detatched from his body, the nurses would call the patient a "basket case". As in they had to bring the soldier to them in a basket.

Modern day usage is to describe someone that is in need of extreme assistance(mental or physical).

Well Marge they brought in another basket case, a grenade blew off his legs.

by Harvey March 08, 2005

basket case

one who is crazy, well i'll let the lyrics of the Green Day song say it for you.

Do you have the time
To listen to me whine
About nothin' and everything
All at once?

I am one of those
Melodramatic fools.
Neurotic to the bone,
No doubt about it.

Sometimes I give myself the creeps.
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me.
It all keeps addin' up.
I think I'm crackin' up.
Am I just paranoid,
Or am I just stoned?

I went to a shrink
To analyze my dreams.
She said it's lack of sex
That's bringin' me down.

I went to a whore.
He said my life's a bore,
So quit my whining cuz
It's bringin' her down.

Sometimes I give myself the creeps.
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me.
It all keeps addin' up.
I think I'm crackin' up.
Am I just paranoid?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Grasping to control.
So I better hold on.

Sometimes I give myself the creeps.
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me.
It all keeps addin' up.
I think I'm crackin' up.
Am I just paranoid,
Or am I just stoned?

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 07, 2004

basket case

some one that has a bunch of problems and mental and phycoloically

That girl has been such a basket case since she was dumped by her boyfriend.

by frix December 27, 2006

basket case

a very nervous and distraught person(Formerly used to refer to someone who is totally physically disabled. See also nervous wreck.)

I was a basket case when it came to interviews.

by Light Joker April 23, 2005

basket case

an awesome green day song with a rocking beat and lots of bass; the song is about frontman's billie joe armstrong's paranoia

Sometimes I give myself the creeps,
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me,
It all keeps adding up,
I think I'm cracking up,
Am I just paranoid?
Or am I just stoned?

by GreenDayIsTheBest April 16, 2004

basket case

The term has its roots in world war I. The soldiers referred to the injured who had to have all four limbs amputated as a basket case. I figure it is something to do with the fact that the person will now have to be carried around in a basket!

Busama stuck the dynamite up his ass to look cool, two days later he was a basket case!

by abracadabra January 20, 2004

BASKET CASE

someone who can not function in particular situation or environment

Johnny is a basket case since he lost his job.

by Anonymous September 05, 2003