first base
noun1
Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports The base after home plate in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield.
- The runner took his lead off first base.
2
Broadly Completion of the first phase of an activity.
3
US, Colloquial Kissing, regarded as the first phase of a sexual relationship.
- I got to first base with Danny, and hope to get him naked this weekend.
- 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.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 104:
4
Blackjack, Games The betting spot located immediately to the left of the dealer, which is first to receive cards and first to act.
- Derived terms
- first baseman, first basing
- Related terms
- second base, third base, home run, score
- Hypernyms
- base