first base en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The base after home plate in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield.
The runner took his lead off first base.
- (broadly, countable, singular, singular-only, uncountable) Completion of the first phase of an activity.
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(US, colloquial, countable, singular, singular-only, uncountable) Kissing, regarded as the first phase of a sexual relationship.
Every time I got to the part about her out with Stradlater in that damn Ed Banky's car, it almost drove me crazy. I knew she wouldn’t let him get to first base with her, but it drove me crazy anyway.
1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 104:I got to first base with Danny, and hope to get him naked this weekend.
- (countable, uncountable) The betting spot located immediately to the left of the dealer, which is first to receive cards and first to act.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| first bases | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
home base · second base · third base
Deriveds
Hypernyms
Relateds
home run · score · second base · third base
Translations (13)
fr première base (baseball: base after home plate) · fi ykköspesä (baseball: base after home plate) · ca primera base (baseball: base after home plate) · ja 一塁 (baseball: base after home plate) · ko 퍼스트 (baseball: base after home plate) · bg първа база (baseball: base after home plate) · mk прва база (baseball: base after home plate) · cmn 一壘 /一垒 (baseball: base after home plate) · ja ファースト (baseball: base after home plate) · ru пе́рвая ба́за (baseball: base after home plate) · ko 1루 (baseball: base after home plate) · fr premier but (baseball: base after home plate) · fi ykkönen (baseball: base after home plate)