bleacher

American  

[blee-cher] / ˈbli tʃər /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of bleacher

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

Example Sentences

Descending to your left is a broad “sitting stair,” wide enough to serve as bleachers and made of warm-colored wood.

From The Wall Street Journal

“So electric, dancing on the bleachers in left-center field … I’m hoping everybody starts dancing to that song when Roki comes to pitch.”

From Los Angeles Times

In the bleachers on Saturday, there should be more than 50 cousins, aunts and uncles rooting for Dash, plus former OC Buckeyes.

From Los Angeles Times

Mountains of ice surround them like bleachers in an arena—if the bleachers were below freezing and stretched taller than skyscrapers.

From Literature

He was short, with a Wall Street belly—not the bleacher bum’s boiler but the discreet, necessary pouch of a squirrel just before winter.

From Literature