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Definition of Second base

1. Noun. The base that must be touched second by a base runner in baseball.

2. Noun. The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield.

Definition of Second base

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

2. Noun. (colloquial) Touching a woman's breast. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Second Base

second-rate second-rater second-sheet second-sighted second-stability region second-storey man second-storey men second-string second-stringer second-to-last

second-year second act second balcony second banana second bananas second base (current term) second baseman second bases second battle of Ypres second best

second childhood second conditional second countable second cousin second cousin once removed second cousins second cranial nerve second cuneiform bone

Literary usage of Second base

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1912)
"the hundred-yard dash, the runner on first proceeded to jog. sometimes even to walk to second base ! This was awful, indeed ! ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"After the runner has ascertained by a false start which infielder, whether second-baseman or short-stop, will cover second-base, the batsman signals to the ..."

3. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1892)
"... long as the second, base of third joint elongate-conical. Occiput bright yellow tomentose. Thorax and scutellum golden-yellow tomentose, ..."

4. The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports by Ottmar Mergenthaler, Henry Hall (1887)
"If, in overrunning first base, he also attempts to run to second base, ho shall forfeit such exemption from being put out. (1O) If, when a fair or foul hit ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Take a cord, 180 feet long, fixing one end on the front ang'e of the home base, and the other on the centre of the second base. ..."

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