Most appropriately a business expression originating approximately 40-years-ago derived from the sport of baseball. During that time it was a novel and well accepted slang for the purpose of getting-in-touch with someone over any form of matter. By 1990, it became so over used to the point of becoming a corny expression eventually leading to the use mostly by an asshat as described. Today, such an expression is regarded practically as an insult for this very reason and is taken as a form of senseless needling, often meant to offend one's intelligence.
The only businesses who have become notorious for the term are financial institutions where, in fact, new employees are actually taught to use it in the form of customer psychology as it belittles the status of the borrower in relation to the lender, e.g., reminding the customer who the lender is and that they are in debt.
The only businesses who have become notorious for the term are financial institutions where, in fact, new employees are actually taught to use it in the form of customer psychology as it belittles the status of the borrower in relation to the lender, e.g., reminding the customer who the lender is and that they are in debt.
by Ipana May 02, 2009
He said to me when I first met him in the office kitchen that we should 'touch base sometime'. I told him I would be glad to if his wife obliged.
Haven't you heard? Touching base is the new first base.
Haven't you heard? Touching base is the new first base.
by Pádraig Shuibhne May 07, 2021
Saying that you'll "touch base" with someone is really just a fancy or more professional-sounding way of saying: "I'll make sure to bother you about this later."
It's a term that generally only white people use or that you only use when speaking to white people or that you only use when trying to sound white. Either way, if anyone is "touching base" with anyone else, white people have to be involved somehow.
It's a term that generally only white people use or that you only use when speaking to white people or that you only use when trying to sound white. Either way, if anyone is "touching base" with anyone else, white people have to be involved somehow.
Laura: "OK, now that we have an initial plan for Friday, I'll touch base with you tomorrow to make sure no issues have come up between now and then."
Tom: "Laura, we're just going to be hanging out at the mall. Stop being so freaking white about it!"
Tom: "Laura, we're just going to be hanging out at the mall. Stop being so freaking white about it!"
by A Pair of Onions February 11, 2011
by gmax May 30, 2005
As Barb is touching base with clients on the phone, her co-workers get up and do the touching base dance!
by Base Toucher August 17, 2010
by Alpha Otter October 09, 2018