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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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