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drifter::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | clochard, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
| Type of | wanderer, bird of passage, have-not, poor person, roamer, rover |
| Has types | tramp, bum, beachcomber, hobo, sundowner |
| Derivation | drift |
Examples of drifter
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The most famous sea-drifter is known in the West and even Japan as John Manjiro.
From the economist.com
While salmon and trout fishing, many a drifter has hit into huge smallmouth bass.
From the buffalonews.com
In front of her was the painter, behind her the drifter and the boundary fence.
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Adams'second marriage, this time to a hard-drinking drifter, ended in divorce.
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Cops discover her boy over in DeKalb, Ill., abandoned by a drifter at a cafe.
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A small-town Mississippi boss tries to pair his daughter with an enigmatic drifter.
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Profane Sister Sara recruits a drifter to help Mexican rebels attack a French fort.
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A handsome drifter who might be AWOL and who is obsessed with government cover-ups.
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A talented drifter, Miyake, 28, excelled in gymnastics as a child in Nara but quit.
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- Vagrant: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- Drifter is a chocolate bar. Drifter was launched by Rowntree's in 1980, consisting of a biscuit wafer with caramel layered on top. The bar is now produced by Nestlu00E9 following their takeover of Rowntree's in 1988.
- A Drifter is either a hydraulic or pneumatic powered rock or ground drill placed on top of a feed. The feed is like a rail that the drill travels on, aka. drifts. This kind of drilling procedure is also called drifting. ...
- A drifter is a type of fishing boat. They were designed to catch herrings in a long drift net. Herring fishing using drifters has a long history in many British fishing ports, and particularly in East Scottish ports.
- Drifters are floating devices to investigate ocean currents. The major components of a drifter are a hollow bodies that ensures flotation (floats), "sails" to catch water currents, instruments (e.g. ...
- The characters in SpongeBob SquarePants were created by artist, animator and former marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg. In addition to the series' main cast, various celebrities have voiced roles in SpongeBob SquarePants. ...
- A vagrant or a vagabond is a person, often in poverty, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular employment or income. Other synonyms include "tramp," "hobo," and "drifter". A vagrant could be described as being "a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging"; vagrancy is the condition of such persons.
- Drifter is the debut album by country music singer Sylvia.
- The Drifter is a 1917 Western film starring Harry Carey.
