Definition of "breeder" []

• A person who breeds animals or plants. (noun)
• An animal kept to produce offspring. (noun)
• Offensive Slang A heterosexual person. (noun)
• A source or cause: social injustice—a breeder of revolutions. (noun)
• A breeder reactor. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "If "breeder" is a pejorative for heteros, then those "herd-thinners" who hunt the whole deer could simply be called "consumers.""
• "We have an enormous amount of uranium already mined and available to turn into plutonium in breeder reactors, but are not doing that because it would provide an incentive to not-nice countries to make nuclear weapons."
• "It could help convince a jury that a suspected breeder is supplying dog-fighting rings across the country."