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  1. To kiss. Let me ba thy cheke. Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 433.
  2. To lull asleep by a continuous, inarticulate, musical hum. [Scots.] I'll ba the bairns wi' an unkenned tune. W. Nicholson.

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  • Think of that guy, that ba -- that guy, I'm trying to be good here. —  Keith Barry does brain magic
  • The Mexican slept like a ba-by all night -- no tossing and turning, minimal allergy-induced snoring -- and woke up a full 20 minutes before his alarm clock went off. —  Girl Friday
  • The default sound for a Sinhala consonant (without a vowel modifier) is 'a', ba, ma, tha, etc. —  indi.ca
  • Yeah, I know I don't usually start quoting Chicago lyrics till cocktail hour -- ba-dum, bum! —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • I had everything when we went to record it, but Nick Lowe came up with that riff -- ba dir di dir dit -- which is the icing on the cake. —  Expecting Rain
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  1. Perhaps a humorous imitation of a smack; but cf. Old French baer, beer, open the mouth, gape (see bay), and bass, kiss.
  2. Imitative of the sound.
 

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