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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 |
| Jonatan | | YO-nah-tahn (German) | Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German |
| Erin | | ER-in | English, Irish |
| Boutros | | - | Arabic, Coptic |
| York | | YORK | English |
| Laila (1) | | LAY-lə (English), LIE-lə (English) | Arabic, English |
| Into | | EEN-to | Finnish |