bleeders

Noun

bleeder (plural bleeders)

1. A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
   • And then finally to pass on to the rising generation there were Sean's two little girls Rose and Cerise, aged five and four respectively, and these innocent little girlies were bleeders like their papa and mama […]1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
2. A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
   • Ligate or cauterize small subcutaneous bleeders and identify the linea alba.2013, Theresa Welch Fossum, Small Animal Surgery Textbook
3. Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
4. A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
5. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang) A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter.
   • His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish, / Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.1938, Louis MacNeice, Bagpipe Music
6. Synonym of scratch hit.

   Synonyms:

   scratch hit

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