Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. baseball To touch a base, usually with a foot but sometimes with a hand.
- v. idiomatic, colloquial, US, Canada, usually with "with" (derived from the baseball term) To consult, visit, or communicate.
WordNet 3.0
- v. establish communication with someone
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Lists
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"edgy" words that make me want to pun...
edgy, hip, buzzy, buzzworthy, hotspot, hot, trendy, savvy, killer, cutting edge, touch base
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Touchy feely words
express, dialogue, brainstorm, partner, harmonious, collaborate, share, touch base, inclusive, eracism, challenge, privilege and 3 more...
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Cringe List
No. Just no.
"Slang, though humanly irreverent, tends to be inhumanly loveless. It lacks tenderness and compassion; its poetry has the effulgence of a soldier's brass buttons."
...woot, w00t, anyways, whatever, totes, booyah, sick, ill, nom, anyhoo, frickin', jeebus and 81 more...
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OM2 Lesson 24
touch base, bowl, bowling, stair, sprain, crutch, stuck, mess up, ask for, church, sure thing, trafic light and 6 more...
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Corporate Buzz Words and Phrases
This is soooo Dilbert.
cube farm, thinking outside ..., blue sky thinking, brain dump, get our ducks in ..., push the envelope, low hanging fruit, offline, stakeholder, action item, basic functionality, world class and 31 more...
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Corp Speak and Biz Talk
Verbing nouns and nounifying verbs from 9 to 5.
heads-up, win win, value add, synergy, proactive, entrepreneurial, collaborative, cost-effective, paradigm shift, leverage, bottom line, off-line and 27 more...
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Gahhh!
Can't stand 'em.
Tweets
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bilby For me it's annoying when I hear it because 99 out of 100 Australians wouldn't know which end of a baseball bat to hold. Feb 27, 2009
super-charolastra Hate it. What was once a perfectly good baseball-based metaphor has become so overused it makes me sick. Feb 27, 2009