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baskets
A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
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All Definitions for Baskets

Below are all the dictionary definitions of baskets:

1A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
2A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
3In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
4A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
5The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
6The game of basketball.
7A bed for a cat.
8A set or collection of intangible things.
9The penis and region surrounding it.
10The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
11A usually disc-like piece attached near the bottom of a ski pole to prevent it from sinking too deep into the snow.
12The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
13The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
14Bastard.
15To place in a basket or baskets.
16To 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.
17A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
18A singlestick with a basket hilt.
19In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
20A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick
21A guard of a bladed weapon.
22A 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.
23Short for basket of goods [(economics) A standard set of hypothetical consumer purchases used to measure a consumer price index.]

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