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a basket case
a basket case
1. (informal) 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.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Amity | | AM-i-tee | English (Rare) |
| WŁOdek | | VWAW-dek | Polish |
| Tegid | | - | Welsh |
| Ljubomir | | - | Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian |
| Yam | | - | Near Eastern Mythology |
| Chichi | | - | Western African, Igbo |