basket

From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman baschet, basket, bascat, of obscure origin.

One theory is that it derives from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Proto-Brythonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), from purported Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”),^[1] but this is now widely viewed as a substrate word for phonetic reasons. Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”) (whence English fasces), Albanian bokshe (“bundle”), Breton bac'h (“bundle, load”), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos) and βάσκιοι (báskioi) (“bundle (of sticks)”); see also faggot (“(originally) bundle of sticks”).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bäsʹkĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːskɪt/
• (Northern England, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈbaskɪt/, /ˈbaskɛt/
• (US)
  • (General American) enPR: băsʹkĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈbæskɪt/

• Audio (US):

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  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbæskət/
• (General Australian) enPR: bäsʹkət, IPA^(key): /ˈbaːskət/
• Hyphenation: bas‧ket
• Rhymes: -æskɪt, -ɑːskɪt

basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)

1. A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

   A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.

   1. (by extension) A bed for a cat.
2. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
3. (Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
4. (figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
   • 2004, Gichinga Ndirangu, Heinrich Böll Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya), An African civil society action toward WTO 2003 (page 16)

     The basket of issues that developing countries had vigorously wanted addressed such as agriculture, SANDD and implementation-related issues were given scant attention by developed countries for most part of the conference.

5. (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.

   The point guard drove toward the basket.

6. (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.

   The last-second basket sealed the victory.

7. (uncountable) The game of basketball.

   Let's play some basket.

8. 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.
9. (LGBTQ, slang) The penis and region surrounding it.^[2]
10. (slang) The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
11. (obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
    • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:

      In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket.

12. (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
    1. A singlestick with a basket hilt.
       • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:

         Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets.

13. (ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

      Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

14. (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
    • 1832, Edward Hall, Civil Architecture:

      Thus the capital of the Corinthian column always resembles a deep narrow basket covered with a tile, and completely surrounded by foliage

15. (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.

    Wait till I catch you, you little basket!

16. (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method

    Don't smoosh the basket.

17. (economics) Short for basket of goods

• (container used in a shop): cart, shopping basket, shopping cart
• (storage place for online items): cart, shopping basket, shopping cart
• (basketball): basketball, hoops
• (genitals): Thesaurus:male crotch bulge

• → Cornish: basket
• → Irish: bascaed
• → Welsh: basged

• trug

basket (third-person singular simple present baskets, present participle basketing, simple past and past participle basketed)

1. (transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
2. (transitive, publishing) 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.
   • 1974, Publishers Weekly, volume 206, numbers 1-14, page 70:

     Foreign language paperback, serial and book club would be basketed together in a 50/50 subsidiary rights clause.

   • 1981, Thomas Whiteside, The Blockbuster Complex:

     It may very well be that such "basketing" of hardcover, paperback, movie, and other rights within the divisions of […]

• bakest

Borrowed from English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Common Brittonic, from Proto-Celtic *baski (“bundle, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”).

• Hyphenation: bas‧ket
• IPA^(key): /ˈbasket/ [ˈbas̪.ket̪]

basket

1. basket

basket

1. to play basketball

For quotations using this term, see Citations:basket.

Borrowed from English basket, from Latin bascauda, from Proto-Celtic *baskis. Doublet of begh.

basket m (plural baskettys)

1. basket

   Synonyms: kanstel, kowel

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

• IPA^(key): /baːskət/, [ˈb̥ɑːsɡ̊əd̥]

basket c (indeclinable)

1. basketball (the sport)

Borrowed from English basket.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑs.kət/, [ˈbɑ(ː)s.kət], /ˈbaːs.kət/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bas‧ket

basket m (plural baskets)

1. (basketball) basket (the goal in basketball)

• basketbal
• basketter

• IPA^(key): /bas.kɛt/

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

basket m (plural basket)

1. (colloquial) basketball

   Synonyms: basket-ball, (Canada, Louisiana, Missouri, New England) ballon-panier

basket f (plural baskets)

1. (Europe, especially in plural) sneaker (US), trainer (UK)

   Synonym: tennis

   On y va dès que tout le monde a fini de mettre ses baskets.

   We'll go once everyone has put on their trainers.

• (Quebec): running shoe, running (criticized), espadrille

• bien dans ses baskets
• lâcher les baskets

• IPA^(key): /bas.ˈkɛt̚/
• Hyphenation: bas‧kèt

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

baskèt (plural basket-basket)

1. (sports) basketball
   1. the particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball
   2. a sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop

• bola keranjang (Standard Malay)

Blend of basah (“wet”) +‎ ketiak (“armpit; underarm”).

basket (comparative lebih basket, superlative paling basket)

1. (slang) having wet underms

• “basket” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbas.ket/
• Rhymes: -asket
• Hyphenation: bà‧sket

basket m (invariable)

1. basketball

   Synonym: pallacanestro

• Legabasket

• bascat, baskot

From Anglo-Norman bascat, possibly from Late Latin bascauda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaskɛt/, /ˈbaskət/

basket (plural baskettes)

1. A basket (a woven container)
2. (rare) The amount that fits in a basket.

• English: basket
  • → Cornish: basket
  • → Irish: bascaed
  • → Welsh: basged
• Scots: basket
• Yola: baskaate, baskeat

• “basket, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 July 2018.

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

basket m (uncountable)

1. misspelling of básket

Pseudo-anglicism; from English basketball.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːskɛt/

basket c (uncountable)

1. basketball (the sport)

• basketboll (less common; mainly referring to the ball rather than the sport)
• korgboll (dated)
• negerboll (vulgar slang)

• basket in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• basket in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• bakets, tebaks

Borrowed from English basket.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbasket/ [ˈbas.kɛt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -asket
• Syllabification: bas‧ket

basket (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜃᜒᜆ᜔)

1. basket

   Synonym: sesta

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:basket

   1. shopping basket
   2. wastebasket
   3. (basketball) basket (circular hoop from which a net is suspended)
2. (slang) rejection; disapproval; nonacceptance (in a submission, courtship, etc.)

• basketbol

basket (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜃᜒᜆ᜔)

1. (slang) disapproved; rejected (in a submission, courtship, etc.)

• “basket”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From English basket.

basket

1. basket

Borrowed from English basket.

• IPA^(key): /basˈcet/
• Hyphenation: bas‧ket

basket (definite accusative basketi, plural basketler)

1. basket (basketball: act of putting the ball through the basket)
2. basketball (the sport)

   Synonym: basketbol