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basket
/ˈbæskɪt/
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What does basket mean?
noun
- A lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- A bed for a cat.
- A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
More meanings (19)
noun
- In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
- (figuratively) A set or collection of intangible things.
- A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
- The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
- The game of basketball.
- A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
- (slang) The penis and region surrounding it.
- (slang) The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
- A usually disc-like piece attached near the bottom of a ski pole to prevent it from sinking too deep into the snow.
- The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
- The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- (informal) Bastard.
- A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
- Short for basket of goods
- (obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
- (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
- (archaic) A singlestick with a basket hilt.
verb
- To place in a basket or baskets.
- To cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbæskɪt/
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Apparently he tossed them into the great metallic carrier which projected behind him, much as a workman’s basket hangs over his shoulder.
“You’ll have to have something to put them in,” she said, ignoring the yawning willow basket which stood empty on Thor’s feet.
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Mombi bade the boy light a candle, while she put her basket in a cupboard and hung her cloak on a peg.
Have I lived to be carried in a basket like a barrow of butcher’s offal, and to be thrown in the Thames?
He was a foot-haggler now, having been obliged to sell his second horse, and he travelled with his basket on his arm.