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basket case

1) Someone who is going mad or on the verge of a nevous brakedown.
2) A Green Day song sung by the one and only Billie Joe Armstrong. Arguably one of the great Green Day songs, if not one of the great songs of the 90's.
1) He is such a basket case.
2) Be quiet, I am listening to Basket Case.
by jazzpup February 14, 2005
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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.
by Harvey May 13, 2005
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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 7, 2004
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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 January 9, 2007
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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 22, 2005
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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!
by Kiltwearer May 7, 2018
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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
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