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"Basket case" used to refer to quadruple amputees.

"Basket case" used to refer to quadruple amputees. Today, we use basket case to mean someone who is crazy, or psychologically hopeless. It turns out the actual definition can be traced back to World War I. The phrase first came along as a slang term during World War I. It referred to quadruple amputees, or those who had lost all four limbs.  The reason for this is that soldiers who lost all their limbs were carried away in baskets. This wasn't because of a shortage of stretchers, but because if...

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Published By: OMGFacts - Saturday, 30 June, 2012