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first base

first base noun: the base after home plate in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield.

Noun

first base (countable and uncountable, plural first bases)

  1. The base after home plate in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield.
    • The runner took his lead off first base.
  2. (broadly, singular, singular-only) Completion of the first phase of an activity.
  3. (US, colloquial, singular, singular-only) Kissing, regarded as the first phase of a sexual relationship.
    • I got to first base with Danny, and hope to get him naked this weekend.
    • 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
  4. The betting spot located immediately to the left of the dealer, which is first to receive cards and first to act.

Forms of first base

pluralfirst bases

Words formed from first base

Questions about first base

What does first base mean?
First base means the base after home plate in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield.
What part of speech is first base?
First base is a noun.
What is the plural of first base?
The plural of first base is first bases.

Words near first base in the dictionary

  1. first arch syndromes
  2. first article
  3. first articles
  4. First Australian
  5. First Australians
  6. first base
  7. first baseman
  8. first basemen
  9. first bases
  10. first basing
  11. first best

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