breeder
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɹiːdɚ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: breed‧er
Noun
breeder (plural breeders)
- A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).
- 2016, Jayson Lusk, Unnaturally Delicious, →ISBN, page 137:
- Breeders have figured out that if they can take one haploid set of chromosomes from a cross and copy it (or double it creating a double haploid), they will have a pure line almost instantly.
- Ellipsis of breeder reactor; a type of nuclear reactor that creates more fissile material than it consumes, often used for the production of atomic weapons.
- (cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.
- 1992 June 17, Bill Sharp, comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
- I was wondering if anyone out there could mail me a base for MIT's 'breeder' - the one with 8? puffer trains forming glider-guns. I've seen in in a few books but can't seem to get it working ...
- 2002 July 23, Owen Rees, “Wolfram and "general 2D simulators"”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
- I later implemented an improved version of the algorithms on an Atari STe, this time the goal was to run the breeder, which it did at 2 gen/sec at the stage when the first glider gun has been assembled.
- 2008 May 31, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
- A glider-emitting breeder pattern can probably also be constructed in this rule, which would out-radiate any chaotic pattern by a considerable margin.
- (slang, derogatory) A person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.
- 1729, Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal:
- The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders.
- (LGBTQ slang, derogatory) A heterosexual person; one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heterosexual
- Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock.
- 1979 August 18, Don Shewey, “Gay Spirit”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 4:
- When visiting gay friends but wishing to avoid any heterosexual passersby or dinner guests of said friends, one can always call ahead and inquire, "Are there breeders in your home?"
- 1982, Armistead Maupin, Further Tales of the City, New York: Harper & Row, page 105:
- “Hey… what does a breeder know?”
Michael grinned. “Where did you learn that word?”
[…] “One of the guys at Perry's,” replied Brian. “He said that's what the faggots call us.”
- 1984 August 27, Steve Upstill, “The Kiss of Death”, in net.motss (Usenet):
- What is this here natural/unnatural stuff, anyway? Seems like a rationalization to this breeder.
- 2000, “Now Approaching... The Line”, in Queer as Folk, spoken by Brian Kinney (Gale Harold):
- Hey, you try spending an evening with some back-slapping breeder from out of town, smoking cigars, and talking about pussy.
- 2010, Walter Lape, Alaska Waters, The Hudson Press, →ISBN:
- My father spoke in a quiet, measured voice that gradually increased in tempo and in volume, “Travis, suppose everyone at this table were gay except you, and I called you a trailer-trash breeder?”
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
(professional) plant or animal breeder
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type of nuclear reactor
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pattern in cellular automation
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slang, derogatory: person focussed on the rearing of their children
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heterosexual
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Further reading
breeder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - breeder reactor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- breeder (cellular automaton) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “breeder n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
Anagrams
Noun
breeder
- Alternative form of brither
References
- “brither, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
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