third base

English

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

Hypernyms

• (baseball): base

Translations

the baseball base

• 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)
• Korean: 삼루 (ko) (samnu)
• Russian: тре́тья ба́за f (trétʹja báza)

See also

• first base
• second base
• home run / score

Anagrams

• rhabdites