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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.
basket case by Harvey May 13, 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?

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.
basket case by frix January 9, 2007

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.
basket case by Light Joker April 22, 2005

Montreal basket case 

A threesome between a male, female and a shemale. The woman is on her back and spit roasted by the male and shemale. The male and shemale hold each others arms for traction. The position looks like a basket.
What a wild night, I actually Montreal basket cased my girl with a trans, that shit was crazy!

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?