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breather
noun- in sports, a game against a weak opponent US
From the conventional sense (a rest). - The coaches used to talk about breathers. That’s a sad excuse. There are no breathers today anyway. — San Francisco News, p. 18, 15 November 1945
- Da Grosa also assailed the scheduling of “breathers” as unfair to the paying public. — San Francisco Cann-Bulletin, p. 16, 26 December 1950
- The UCLA Bruins, toppled from No. 1 last week amid the mud and might of Maryland, drew their “breather” tomorrow and are figured to beat Washington State by three or four touchdowns. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 3H, 1 October 1955
- Women Look to Get on Track With Nonconference Breather [Headline] — Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)), 10 February 1995
- the nose US
- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Underground Dictionary, p. 17, 1973
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 199, 1990
- a person who derives sexual pleasure from telephoning someone and breathing heavily when they answer the phone US
- When I lift up the receiver, at first I think I got a breather. Then a voice says, “Check it out. There was a bullet in Helen Caplet.” — Robert Campbell, Junkyard Dog, p. 75, 1986
- in trucking, the air intake pipe US
- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 18, 1971
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