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Any locomotive engineer, especially a fast one. Name derived from John Luther (Casey) Jones
crazy person ‘What a basket case!’
It means you were considered to be insane. In 'the old days' before chemical straightjackets, the most difficult of mentally ill patients were controlled by strapping them literally into baskets. Therefore to be a basket case was to be uncontrollably mad - or more likely seriously odd or weird.
Case is slang for a mad person.Case is slang for to inspect carefully (especially a place to be robbed).Case is British slang for the last one.Case was old slang for a brothel.
Get on someone's case is American slang for to harass, badger or interfere.
Gam cases is British slang for trousers.Gam cases is British slang for tights, stockings.
To be "on your case", means to be harassing you. "Get off my case", means "stop harassing me."
Cased up is British slang for to be dressed. Cassed up was old slang living together.
Dancer cases is British slang for footwear.
To be "on your case", means to be harassing you. "Get off my case", means "stop harassing me."
Paw cases is slang for gloves.
To engage in any unlawful activities requiring legal prosecution. It is often used in reference to hurting another individual and obtaining murder charges. "I just saw my wifey with another dude and I’m about to catch-a-case after I’m through with her."Â
Glass case is London Cockney rhyming slang for face.
Hard case is British slang for a tough, uncompromising person.
five shillings (5/-), a crown coin. Seems to have surfaced first as caser in Australia in the mid-1800s from the Yiddish (Jewish European/Hebrew dialect) kesef meaning silver, where (in Australia) it also meant a five year prison term. Caser was slang also for a US dollar coin, and the US/Autralian slang logically transferred to English, either or all because of the reference to silver coin, dollar slang for a crown, or the comparable value, as was.
Caser is British slang for twenty−five pence. Caser was old British slang for five shillings.
 Pillow case.
Suitable case is British slang for eccentric, mad, insane.
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v. i.
To propose hypothetical cases.
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Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate.
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A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
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An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
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Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
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A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
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Of or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid.
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To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
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That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.
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To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.
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A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.
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Same as Casein.
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Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad.
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A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.
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Having a casement or casements.
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A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a letter or character which represents such a sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 146-149.
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