Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that drifts, especially a person who moves aimlessly from place to place or from job to job.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pejorative A person who moves from place to place or
job to job. - noun nautical A type of lightweight
sail used in light winds like aspinnaker . - noun 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is basically what we call a drifter slope mine.
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It is basically what we call a drifter slope mine.
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A depressed drifter is even unhappier when it is a sunny day and everyone is having fun.
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A depressed drifter is even unhappier when it is a sunny day and everyone is having fun.
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A depressed drifter is even unhappier when it is a sunny day and everyone is having fun.
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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?).
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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.
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A so-called drifter shows off his precision with a knife and cucumber.
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Scarseth, described as a drifter, received a warning for skateboarding illegally.
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Previous entry: Man found with Smart known as drifter
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