safe

  1. Adjective.  Not in danger; free from harm's reach.
  2. Adjective.  Free from risk; harmless, riskless.
  3. Adjective.  Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
  4. Adjective.  (baseball) When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.
  5. Adjective.  Properly secured; secure.
  6. Adjective.  (context, used after a noun) Not in danger from the specified source of harm.
  7. Adjective.  (UK, slang) Great, cool, awesome, respectable; (non-gloss definition, a term of approbation.) .
  8. Noun.  A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.

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