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  • noun Plural form of baas.

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Examples

  • Zambia had been asked to provide baases to the rebels and described the press reports as "malicious."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Water as they do now, two white baases came into this country to look for white stones and gold.

    Uncanny Tales Various

  • They toiled, these white baases, digging in the hillside and searching the riverbed; and then one day it came to pass that they quarrelled and fought, and the baas with the pictures was slain.

    Uncanny Tales Various

  • Miguel Montero singled, then Chris Young walked to load the baases.

    SI.com 2011

  • Miguel Montero singled, then Chris Young walked to load the baases.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • I had got through several with many groanings, for none were agreeable in their tenor, when Hans poked his head through the window in a silent kind of a way as a big snake might do, and said: "Baas, I think there are two baases out on the road there who are looking for you.

    The Ivory Child Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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