Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a container that is usually woven and has handles.
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- noun A
basket with ahandle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a container that is usually woven and has handles
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Examples
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There's a ticket to hell in handbasket with a Christian twist.
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December 15th, 2009 4: 35 pm ET so now we're all going to hell in handbasket, dead broke and socialists too. we need a revolution
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For sure this country is headed to HELL in a handbasket from the comments written.
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I’m trying to stay very optimistic and excited about the whole thing, but deep down I know that I’m going down in a blaze of gunfire, in a handbasket, that is on fire, and filled with electric eels, in the midst of a meteor shower, surrounded by my mother’s nagging voice, only to end it all by being impaled on a wrought iron fence.
whitehelmet Diary Entry whitehelmet 2004
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In this time of e-books, Ipad apps, dwindling sales of traditional books, and fear that we are going to hell in a handbasket where do you think things will be by the time you are ready for a second edition of your book, say ten years from now?
Monica Edinger: A Book About Children's Books for Book Loving Adults Monica Edinger 2010
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Dog scams … the world is truly going to hell in a handbasket.
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I repeat, the country is going to hell in a handbasket.
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Where are we going & what's with this handbasket? heya meredith, I'm talking to you ...
The greatest book jacket you will ever see Tyler 2009
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Some of her sharper observations in the sometimes profanity-laced blog, titled "Where are we going & why are we in this handbasket," did raise eyebrows.
Blogging high school teacher has no job -- and no regrets 2011
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In this time of e-books, Ipad apps, dwindling sales of traditional books, and fear that we are going to hell in a handbasket where do you think things will be by the time you are ready for a second edition of your book, say ten years from now?
Monica Edinger: A Book About Children's Books for Book Loving Adults Monica Edinger 2010
fbharjo commented on the word handbasket
going to hell in a ...................
October 12, 2010