Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- 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.
pl n
- (sometimes singular) a tier of seats in a sports stadium, etc, that are unroofed and inexpensive
- the people occupying such seats
1540s, “one who bleaches,” agent noun from bleach (v.). The “bench for spectators at a sports field” sense (usually bleachers) is attested since 1889, American English; so named because the boards were bleached by the sun.