prisoner's base
noun
any of various children's games in which each of two teams has a home base where members of the opposing team are kept prisoner after being tagged or caught and from which they can be freed only in specified ways.
Origin of prisoner's base
1- Also called prison base .
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British Dictionary definitions for prisoner's base
prisoner's base
noun
a children's game involving two teams, members of which chase and capture each other to increase the number of children in their own base
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