buck-basket noun1 •(no longer used) A basket in which clothes are carried to be washed.Falstaff. […] they conveyed me into a buck-basket. Ford. A buck-basket! Falstaff. By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins […] — 1597 formsbuck-baskets