bleeder
Meanings
noun
- A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
- A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
- Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
- A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
- A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter.
- Synonym of scratch hit.
- A person who menstruates (used in the context of transgender inclusivity).
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Etymology
From bleed + -er.
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