third base

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

third base (singular only)

1. (baseball) The base after second base in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield.

   The runner reached third base with a stand-up triple.

2. (blackjack, card games) The betting spot located immediately to the right of the dealer, which is last to act.
3. (slang, figurative, euphemistic, sex) Touching another person’s genitals in a sexual manner; mutual masturbation.

Hypernyms

• (baseball): base

Derived terms

• third baseman

Translations

the baseball base

• Bulgarian: трета база f (treta baza)
• Catalan: tercera base (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三壘 / 三垒 (sānlěi)

• Finnish: kolmospesä (fi), kolmonen (fi)
• French: troisième but (fr) m, troisième base (fr) f
• Japanese: 三塁 (ja) (sanrui), サード (ja) (sādo)
• Korean: 3루 (samnu), 서드 (seodeu)
• Russian: тре́тья ба́за f (trétʹja báza)

See also

• first base
• second base
• home run / score

Anagrams

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