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basket case

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a basket case
1. someone who is crazy and unable to organize their life. She'll never get a job. She's a basket case.
2. a very poor country which needs economic help from other countries, or a business that is in a very bad financial situation. Twenty years ago the country was an economic basket case.
See also: basket, case
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