Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that drifts, especially a person who moves aimlessly from place to place or from job to job.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which drifts; specifically, a cask, buoy, float, or other light object, properly labeled and tagged, and allowed to drift freely in the ocean to determine ocean-currents. When the surface of the drifter above the water is intentionally made large, relatively to the immersed portion, the drift is due principally to the influence of the surface-winds. When the drifter is not exposed to the wind it shows the influence of the ocean-currents either at the surface or at a considerable depth, depending upon the depth of the layer in which it floats. This may be regulated to some extent by an arrangement similar to that of the Cartesian and Florentine divers. Drifters are set afloat in all parts of the ocean, and their paths are shown on the monthly pilot-charts, together with the paths of derelicts.
Wiktionary
- n. pejorative A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
- n. nautical A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
- n. automotive A driver that uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Etymologies
- drift + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It is basically what we call a drifter slope mine.”
“A depressed drifter is even unhappier when it is a sunny day and everyone is having fun.”
“The author never indicates how this drifter from a vagabond existence came to live in a modest upper middleclass neighborhood with no steady income (dollhouses?).”
“The third person in this case -- and that is Amanda Knox we ` re looking at -- The third man in this case, who is considered or has been described as a drifter, has already been convicted.”
“A so-called drifter shows off his precision with a knife and cucumber.”
“Scarseth, described as a drifter, received a warning for skateboarding illegally.”
“Previous entry: Man found with Smart known as drifter”
“But last month, the Smart family released a sketch of Brian David Mitchell, described as a drifter and street preacher.”
“And what about the so-called drifter who lived in his car?”
“The latest developments getting the breaking news logo including Friday's announcement that Bret Michael Edmunds, the so-called drifter wanted for questioning in the case, had been apprehended in a West Virginia hospital.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘drifter’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Redundancing
The Moves. Do~do~ditty!
tango, bolero, cha cha, foxtrot, foxtantino, hip hop, hustle, jive, merengue, two step, paso doble, quickstep and 219 more...
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In the Collieries
A collection of coal mining and colliery terms. Some British, some Scots, and some, Other. Many terms are quite to the point; others colorful and imaginative.
Also see Middlesmith's li...fire-damp, black-damp, choke-damp, skip, basket, gallery, Gregory lamp, pit, balance, balancer, tenter, coupler and 313 more...
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on the road again
nomad, itinerant, wanderer, gypsy, vagrant, ranger, floater, gadling, scatterling, landloper, wayfarer, rover and 59 more...
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Out to Sea
If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat.boat, ship, skiff, barge, canoe, catamaran, yacht, scow, lifeboat, launch, ketch, dory and 303 more...
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i don't like cricket, i love it
Words without which cricket could not be.
keeper, stumper, bad light stopped..., wicket keeper, rain stopped play, sight screen, bodyline, leg bye, duck, duckworth-lewis, t20, one-day game and 245 more...
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Addenda to the 1923 Printing of Webst...
Many of these words first came into common usage during World War I, and reflect not only the technological and scientific leaps of the early part of the 20th century, but the new experience of glo...
abri, ace, acidosis, airdrome, air fleet, airplane, air raid, airworthy, altimeter, anaphylaxis, anociassociation, anti-aircraft and 292 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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Travelling People
traveller, voyager, vagrant, tramp, nomad, gypsy, hitchhiker, itinerant, pilgrim, vagabond, drifter, wayfarer and 18 more...
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Refugee
itinerant, tinker, peripatetic, guttersnipe, picaresque, drifter, garrigue, scrubland, wasteland, quoy, eolian, semiarid and 4 more...
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code names
numinous, mercurial, kinetic, pastiche, necropolis, frieze, chiaroscuro, melisma, efflorescence, saturnine, fabric, milquetoast and 75 more...
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vagabondish
gypsy, caravans, nomads, bohemian, Romani, libertine, itinerant, vagrant, migration, diaspora, refugee, expatriate and 8 more...
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TWEET
galled, ineffable, lypophrenia, pulchritude, dulcetness, scintillating, skirmish, pugnacious, rue, coveting, inane, expedient and 61 more...
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On The Streets
rag-picker, hobo, street-urchin, tramp, vagrant, jarkman, clapperdogeon, mendicant, pauper, mooch, vagabond, cadger and 36 more...
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