bleacher

[blee-cher]

noun

1. Usually bleachers. a typically roofless section of inexpensive and unreserved seats in tiers, especially at an open-air athletic stadium.

2. a person or thing that bleaches.

3. a container, as a vat or tank, used in bleaching.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bleacher¹

1540–50; 1885–90 bleacher for def. 1; bleach + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“This was for him,” McKinley said of his brother watching from the bleachers.

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By the 5 p.m. start, a hot wind was blowing over the top of the bleachers that framed Hal Lambert Stadium.

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Some fans tumbled out of the bleachers as Ripken leaped to high-five them.

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Pages continued the Dodgers’ streak of scoring in each of the first five innings, driving reliever Nick Anderson’s first pitch of the fifth into the left-field bleachers for his 21st homer of the season.

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Stone, who seems more interested in fiddling with his sunglasses than discussing grip technique, soon wanders away to climb beneath the bleachers with another little boy.

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