Definition of bleacher
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He was convicted after punching a husband and pushing a wife out of the bleachers at a school football game in October 2013.
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Shulman, Boone and Ross plan to call the game from Wrigley's right-field bleachers.
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At every game, Holloway was right there -- near the bench or waiting at the bottom of the bleachers on pins and needles to make sure her son was going to be okay.
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After a series of fires destroyed the wooden bleachers in the late 1920s, Osborn designed a steel and concrete grandstand for the left-field line in 1934.
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Cut to Bryant signing his name in chalk below a message on the brick bleacher wall along Waveland Avenue.
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The floor seating appeared more or less full, as was the horseshoe of bleachers nearest the floor and the first balcony above that.
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Heredia homered over the Green Monster in the eighth and Cano sent his into the center-field bleachers an inning later.
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The bleachers have been removed, and the floor goes next.
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First Known Use of bleacher
1550
BLEACHER Defined for Kids
bleacher
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noun
bleach·er
\ˈblē-chər\
Definition of bleacher for Students
: one of a set of open seats arranged like steps for people to sit on while watching a game or performance —usually used in pl.
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