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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The third of the bases on the diamond counterclockwise from home plate; the last base to be reached by a runner before home plate.
  • noun The position played by the third baseman.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun baseball The base after second base in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield.
  • noun colloquial Touching a man's or woman's genitals in a sexual manner; mutual masturbation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
  • noun the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)

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