second base

second base

English

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.[1]
   • 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 (nirui) Korean: 이루 (iru) Russian: втора́я ба́за f (vtorája báza) Vietnamese: chốt hai

See also

• first base
• third base
• home run / score

References

1. “get to second base” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Anagrams

• abscondees