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 fordef 1; bleach + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The beloved Johnny Appleseed Day parade, the weekly football games with residents piled into the bleachers of Om Wraith Field, the thousand American flags that lined the Skyway on Memorial Day.

From Outside Online

The astronaut wives of the Apollo and Mercury programs sat in the bleachers on launch days.

From Washington Post

The world isn’t divided up into cheer captains and outsiders on the bleachers.

From Time

There would be boys and bleachers and so much screaming and crying!

From Time

If that happens, there will likely be a large group of children watching from the bleachers.

From Washington Post

He caught both the ball and a bleacher to the face as he dove into the stands.

From The Daily Beast

Young, pretty, petite, and commanding, Coach French demands toughness: bleacher runs, drills, sweat, hustle, discipline.

From The Daily Beast

Linen and cotton are the whitest of materials, after passing through the hands of the chemist or the bleacher.

From Project Gutenberg

After the nuts are thoroughly dried, the trays are placed on the car and pushed to the bleacher.

From Project Gutenberg

They must provide themselves with absolute indigo, by an expensive and troublesome process, not suited to the busy bleacher.

From Project Gutenberg

I was bred and brought up at farming work, and became an apprentice to the business of Bleacher, at the age of 14 years.

From Project Gutenberg

This has to be removed before the goods can be considered a good white, which it is the aim of every bleacher they should be.

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