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

BASKET CASE

Refers to someone who is not all there...someone psychotic.

"The hell is he doin facing the corner in the closet???"

"He's a BASKET CASE. Now shut the door...I just watched the Blair Witch Project!"

by Joshiro007 February 22, 2003

BASKET CASE

A motorcycle (or car, i suppose) that is in pieces, usually taken apart by the seller to restore or work on it. Then loses interest.

I bought a basket case XJ700 dirt cheap the other day, I might restore it, or at least use it for spares.

by whoishouse? February 28, 2006

basket case

When a given situation has no solution.
It makes reference in the form of a parabola to someone who has lost his mental health and has no cure.
It is said that people without cure to a mental disease used to be sent to a mental health care facility for life where they would manufacture baskets for the rest of their lives.

The economoy of Nicaragua is such a basket case.
Peter smokes two packs a day, he is such a basket case

by Pablo Arce September 18, 2004

basket case

someone whos emotions are filled with anxiety and obsession

Any mother would be a basket case if they found out their child was hit by a car.

by Gerard Irick August 05, 2009

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

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