单词 | home plate |
释义 | home platen. 1. Baseball. (The name of) the base next to which the batter stands and which must be touched after all the other bases have been reached in order to score a run; = home base n. 1.Home plate was formerly a circle or square, typically made of stone or marble; in the 1880s official rules stipulated that a square of whitened rubber be used and in 1900 the current five-sided shape was adopted. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball ground > [noun] > slab marking home base home1845 home base1855 plate1867 home plate1869 rubber1889 pan1891 platter1892 1869 Jrnl. Telegr. (New York) 15 June 161/1 In this inning the Owls reached home plate three times. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxii. 279 No fault of hers that she couldn't fetch the home-plate. 1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 19/3 As straight and nearly as swiftly as ever he'd..hurled his mighty body from third base to home-plate, he told her the truth. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 51/5 Let's appoint the umpires... Porky, you take homeplate. 2002 L. Scanlan Grace under Fire i. 22 [He buys] a cheap ticket at the ballpark and then ‘slides down’ to a better, vacant seat—preferably behind home plate. 2. slang (chiefly North American). The last of four notional stages of sexual activity, usually characterized as an act of sexual intercourse.Cf. first base n. 2, second base n. 2, third base n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse ymonec950 moneOE meanc1175 manredc1275 swivinga1300 couplec1320 companyc1330 fellowred1340 the service of Venusc1350 miskissinga1387 fellowshipc1390 meddlinga1398 carnal knowinga1400 flesha1400 knowledgea1400 knowledginga1400 japec1400 commoning?c1425 commixtionc1429 itc1440 communicationc1450 couplingc1475 mellingc1480 carnality1483 copulation1483 mixturea1500 Venus act?1507 Venus exercise?1507 Venus play?1507 Venus work?1507 conversation?c1510 flesh-company1522 act?1532 carnal knowledge1532 occupying?1544 congression1546 soil1555 conjunction1567 fucking1568 rem in re1568 commixture1573 coiture1574 shaking of the sheets?1577 cohabitation1579 bedding1589 congress1589 union1598 embrace1599 making-outa1601 rutting1600 noddy1602 poop-noddy1606 conversinga1610 carnal confederacy1610 wapping1610 businessa1612 coition1615 doinga1616 amation1623 commerce1624 hot cocklesa1627 other thing1628 buck1632 act of love1638 commistion1658 subagitation1658 cuntc1664 coit1671 intimacy1676 the last favour1676 quiffing1686 old hat1697 correspondence1698 frigging1708 Moll Peatley1711 coitus1713 sexual intercourse1753 shagging1772 connection1791 intercourse1803 interunion1822 greens1846 tail1846 copula1864 poking1864 fuckeea1866 sex relation1871 wantonizing1884 belly-flopping1893 twatting1893 jelly roll1895 mattress-jig1896 sex1900 screwing1904 jazz1918 zig-zig1918 other1922 booty1926 pigmeat1926 jazzing1927 poontang1927 relations1927 whoopee1928 nookie1930 hump1931 jig-a-jig1932 homework1933 quickie1933 nasty1934 jig-jig1935 crumpet1936 pussy1937 Sir Berkeley1937 pom-pom1945 poon1947 charvering1954 mollocking1959 leg1967 rumpy-pumpy1968 shafting1971 home plate1972 pata-pata1977 bonking1985 legover1985 knobbing1986 rumpo1986 fanny1993 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > stages of sexual activity first basea1897 third base1948 second base1965 home plate1972 1972 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 29 July 13/4 The schlepp he describes in the book has one heck of a time just making it to first base (necking) in the big game of scoring, never mind getting to second (fondling a bare bosom) and third (‘outside of the clothes first, and then inside’) and, finally, to home plate. 1989 N.Y. Times (Electronic ed.) 18 Oct. c2 Melissa told me she has gone to third base with a boy... But she hasn't gone to home plate. 1995 M. Garber Vice Versa i. i. 37 To ‘get to third base’ means ‘touching and toying with the genitals’, and to ‘get to home plate’ or to ‘score’ means ‘to do the sex act’. 2007 D. B. Frank Land of Mango Sunsets 99 When I was a girl, there was only Charles who made it to home plate, as the young people say. Compounds In sense 1. home plate umpire n. ΚΠ 1896 N.Y. Times 24 Apr. 3/4 The home-plate umpire was ‘Archie’ Baxter. 1938 Life 15 Aug. 33/1 Metal shin-guards are worn under home-plate umpire's trousers to guard against being spiked or hit by ball. 2005 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 30 Apr. b2/5 Gagne was ejected April 6 when he heckled home plate umpire Bill Hohn about balls and strikes from the dugout. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1869 |
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