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Last place, in sports lingo
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basement
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Word definitions for basement in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A floor of a building below ground level. 2 (lb en sports informal) Last place in a sports conference standings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"lowest story of a building except the cellar," 1730, from base (n.) + -ment .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
__FORCETOC__ A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are either completely or partially below the ground floor . Basements are generally used as a utility space for a building where such items as the boiler , water heater , breaker ...
Usage examples of basement.
Halott was gone, the tiger returned and chuffed once more and I followed it down a set of stairs, down through a laboratory of some kind, and on down into dank basements below, with water adrip, slime on the walls, and rats running everywhere.
The following Wednesday there was a long meeting in which George outlined his conditions for staying in the Beatles: no more filming at Twickenham, no concert in Tripoli, no television show, and the songs they had rehearsed to be used in a new album to be recorded at the studio that Magic Alex was building for them in the basement of Apple.
She needed to see the basement, to examine the alembic itself and to see if there was any sign of a nitrate bomb.
The bargain basement ambience of the office lent credibility to the spiel.
The following day, Baggy went to a public meeting in the basement of a church.
Whitmore, had taken the parenting class into the Twilight Zone when he had his students adopt the eggs of a mind-controlling bezoar living under the school basement.
He was the person who had fallen down the stairs on my first visit to the basement next door, the guy I had seen in the yard talking to Bossy and had seen later limping along the street.
I told him about following Bossy into the basement of 3O5 and how I had heard him come down the stairs and berate the cat.
I went down to the basement, making sure Bossy was shut in the kitchen and could not follow me.
They hung Playboy Playmates on the wall, set up his hi-fi, with the tweed speaker covers, and his aquarium with the grow light and the bubbler, which imparted a chill, dank smell to the basement air.
The bungee jacket would go back to the art school basement that night.
With a pile of diet wafers and a snack bar balanced on a saucer in one hand, a pot of caff in the other, and a notebook under his arm, Procyon navigated the door of his basement home office, elbowed the switch, and let the robot turn the lights on.
Pinkerton studied the house, a two-story edifice with basement, and a central stairs leading to a porch and entrance.
The masked Circlers took to the stairs that led down into the basement.
The remains of Jimmy de Soto are on a sealed disc with red DATA CONTAMINANT decals somewhere in a basement at Envoy Corps HQ.