prisoner's base

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   a children's game; two teams capture opposing players by tagging them and taking them to their own base

   Broadergame

Questions about prisoner's base

What does prisoner's base mean?

prisoner's base means "a children's game; two teams capture opposing players by tagging them and taking them to their own base".

Is prisoner's base a common word?

prisoner's base is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.