Definition of cot-case in English:

noun

• 1A person who is too ill to leave their bed.

  Example sentences

  • ‘Shot, gassed and riddled with shrapnel, his father comes back from the Great War a cot-case who has to be nursed on the tribal lands by his wife through his fits and moods until he finally succumbs to his injuries at the age of 39.’
  • ‘Well you'd better not come here or you'll finish up a cot-case and I'll be a nervous wreck!’
  • ‘He has now been telling Australia and the world that we are an economic cot-case.’
  • ‘Financially, they are cot-cases.’

  1. 1.1 A person who is incapacitated by alcohol.
     Example sentences

     • ‘There are plenty of highly intelligent individuals who are functional cot-cases.’
  2. 1.2 An eccentric or mad person.
     Example sentences

     • ‘It takes a certain kind of nerdy, self-obsessed cot-case to join.’