basket

Noun

A container made from interwoven strips of material.
a container that is usually woven and has handles
the quantity contained in a basket
horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop
A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
A lightweight 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.
In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
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.
The penis and region surrounding it.
The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
A singlestick with a basket hilt.
The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
Bastard.
A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
Short for basket of goods

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.

Examples

A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
Don't smoosh the basket.
He put all his eggs in one basket by saving his letters for a bingo.
Let's play some basket.
The last-second basket sealed the victory.
The point guard drove toward the basket.
Wait till I catch you, you little basket!

Origin / Etymology

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”), 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”).

Synonyms

basketball hoop, basketful, field goal, handbasket, hoop, basketball, cart, hoops, male crotch bulge, shopping basket, shopping cart

Scrabble Score: 12

basket: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
basket: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
basket: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

basket: valid Words With Friends Word