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basket
Basketball
a. an open horizontal metal hoop fixed to the backboard, through which a player must throw the ball to score points
b. a point or points scored in this way

basket [′bas·kət]
(design engineering)
A lightweight container with perforations.
(mechanical engineering)
A type of single-tube core barrel made from thin-wall tubing with the lower end notched into points, which is intended to pick up a sample of granular or plastic rock material by bending in on striking the bottom of the borehole or solid layer; may be used to recover an article dropped into a borehole. Also known as basket barrel; basket tube; sawtooth barrel.

basket
filled with treats, representative of feast on Easter Sunday. [Folklore: Misc.]
See : Easter


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Her well-meaning family calls a priest, and the rest of the story goes to hell in a handbasket.
Sure, those who think that they're going to be able to succeed by making massive numbers of undifferentiated whatevers are going to find themselves in the aforementioned handbasket.
I mean, if a hot dog on a Friday could put you in a handbasket to hell, my frequently committed mortal sins were certainly good for a one-way ticket on the Stygian Ferry.
 
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