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handbasket definition

hand·bas·ket (hand′bas′kit)

noun

Obsolete a small basket
handbasket Idioms

to hell in a handbasket

Slang, Old-fashioned to one's doom

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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