salad basket

noun

1. a basket in which washed salad greens are swung or spun to remove excess water.

Word History and Origins

Origin of salad basket¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Last week prison officials put Ren� and another prisoner into a tiny compartment in a type of prison van known as a "salad basket."

From Time Magazine Archive

With two armed guards sitting in the central aisle outside Ren�'s cell and another riding up front, the salad basket started off to the hospital prison at Fres-nes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The proof that you have comrades we know nothing about is, that yesterday when you were done in, they found a way to get you out of the Salad Basket!...

From Project Gutenberg

He was straightway put into one of the narrow compartments in the Salad Basket.

From Project Gutenberg

Fandor was listening intensely and trying to discover from the movements of the Salad Basket what street they were passing along.

From Project Gutenberg