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  • Beckyundefined Offline
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    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.

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      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 90s.
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        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).

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          one who is crazy, well ill let the lyrics of the [Green Day] song say it for you.

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          • Jessicaundefined Offline
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            some one that has a bunch of problems and mental and phycoloically

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

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                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!

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                  an awesome green day song with a rocking beat and lots of bass; the song is about frontmans billie joe armstrongs paranoia

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