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n. (plural of basket case English)
Usage examples of "basket cases".
No need to tell me that the Chinese have tried it several times and failed-although they have three basket cases still alive if my informants are correct.
His one vice was cynicism based on lack of imagination: he reckoned most of his countrymen as total mental basket cases and fondly believed that he was exploiting their folly when he told them that a vast Illiminati conspiracy controlled the money supply and interest rates or that a bandit of the 1930s was, in a sense, a redeemer of the atrophying human spirit.
People she had written off as shuffling basket cases are blooming right in front of her.
I was taking very little while I waited to see if my three prod student flat mates - all heavy users - degenerated into giggling basket cases.
If what the Family says was true, all these guys would be basket cases by now!
And do you know how many of them were certified basket cases that would never walk or move any muscle or even go to the toilet by themselves?