Bleachers
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.
Contemporary Examples
The Bizarro World Of Iowa’s GOP Convention Ben Jacobs June 22, 2014
Are Beitar Jerusalem’s Racist Fans Ruining Israeli Soccer? Orly Halpern February 20, 2013
Confessions of an Extreme Yogi Benjamin Lorr December 30, 2012
Tony Danza on His New Book About Teaching, ‘Who’s the Boss,’ and ‘Twilight’ Ramin Setoodeh September 13, 2012
Native American Basketball Team in Wyoming Have Hoop Dreams Of Their Own Robert Silverman August 30, 2014
Historical Examples
The Young Pitcher Zane Grey
Rival Pitchers of Oakdale Morgan Scott
The Young Pitcher Zane Grey
Rippling Rhymes Walt Mason
Makers Cory Doctorow
plural noun
(sometimes sing) a tier of seats in a sports stadium, etc, that are unroofed and inexpensive
the people occupying such seats
n.
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