bleacher

[ blee-cher ]

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noun

Usually bleachers. a typically roofless section of inexpensive and unreserved seats in tiers, especially at an open-air athletic stadium.
a person or thing that bleaches.
a container, as a vat or tank, used in bleaching.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bleacher¹

1540–50; 1885–90 bleacher fordef 1; bleach + -er ¹

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Construction equipment whines as workers erect towering bleachers in a downtown park.

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Once a high school with more than 2,000 students, the latest enrollment figure has 421 students, which isn’t enough to fill bleachers in the gymnasium.

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Trujillo was so pumped he looked up into the bleachers to wave to his father.

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I loved this piece not because of what the fan lost, but because of what he gained in the ensuing comfort and support of the usually cantankerous Dodger bleacher bums.

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Kris and Marques were sitting in the bleachers for Shiloh’s high school debut against Sage Hill last month.

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