second base

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

second base (singular only)

1. (baseball) The base opposite home plate in a baseball infield.

   The runner slid into second base with a double.

2. (singular only, US, colloquial) Touching a partner under his or her clothes, without having sex.
   • 2011 November 3, “The Isolation Permutation”, in The Big Bang Theory, season 5, episode 8, spoken by Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik):

     How about this? French kissing. Seven minutes in heaven, culminating in second base.

Translations

the base opposite home plate

• Catalan: segona base (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 二壘／二垒 (èrlěi)

• Finnish: kakkospesä (fi), kakkonen (fi)
• French: deuxième but (fr) m, deuxième base (fr) f
• Japanese: 二塁 (ja) (nirui)
• Korean: 이루 (iru)
• Russian: втора́я ба́за f (vtorája báza)
• Vietnamese: chốt hai

See also

• first base
• third base
• home run / score

Anagrams

• abscondees