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breed +? -er.

breeder (plural breeders)

A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).
(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.
(gay slang, derogatory) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heterosexual
- 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?”
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.

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