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Noun
first base (countable and uncountable, plural first bases)
- (singular only, baseball) The base after home plate in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield.
- The runner took his lead off first base.
- (singular only, by extension) Completion of the first phase of an activity.
- (singular only, US, colloquial) Kissing, regarded as the first phase of a sexual relationship.
1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 104: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.
- (blackjack) The betting spot located immediately to the left of the dealer, which is first to receive cards and first to act.
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baseball: base after home plate
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