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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.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bleacher1

1540–50; 1885–90 bleacher for def. 1; bleach + -er 1
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Sitting in the Birmingham High bleachers wearing headphones before running the 400 meters at the City Section track and field prelims, 17-year-old senior Nathan Santa Cruz looks like a teenager comfortable and confident.

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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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