DRIFTER | Meaning In The Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of drifter in English drifternoun [ C ] uk /ˈdrɪf.tər/ us /ˈdrɪf.tɚ/

drifter noun [C] (PERSON)

Add to word list Add to word list disapproving someone who does not have a permanent home or job and moves from one place to another or from one job to another : Brian is a drifter who has no permanent address. Apart from spells as a security guard, he was an unemployed drifter. Travellers & visitors

• a rolling stone (gathers no moss) idiom
• blow-in
• caravan
• carpool
• daily passenger
• day-tripper
• emmet
• expedition
• grief tourist
• holidaymaker
• peripatetic
• peripatetically
• pickup
• pilgrim
• ridership
• roamer
• stayer
• traveller
• vacationer
• voyager

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drifter noun [C] (BOAT)

a boat for catching fish in nets that float behind it: I love to watch the herring drifters come in with their catch of herring in the mornings. Boats & sailing craft

• cabin cruiser
• canoe
• cutter
• dhow
• dinghy
• dragon boat
• flatboat
• houseboat
• inflatable
• kayak
• ketch
• lifeboat
• punt
• singlehander
• skiff
• sloop
• sunfish
• superyacht
• surfboat
• tall ship

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drifter noun [C] (IN CRICKET)

sports   specialized in cricket, an occasion where a player bowls (= throws) the ball so that it curves slowly in the air towards or away from the batter (= the player trying to hit the ball) Cricket

• 12th man
• all out
• all-rounder
• arm ball
• asking rate
• batting
• declaration
• eleven
• hook
• infield
• jaffa
• king pair
• late cut
• leg break
• square leg
• stonewall
• strike rate
• sundries
• switch hit
• tail

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• A casual town, created by drifters, and void of settled purpose. 
• For she was a child still—only twenty, but she had been in the 'show business' since she was a motherless, fatherless little drifter of sixteen.... 
• I'm a drifter, sort of. 
• I'm not just a lounger, a drifter. 
• What did she care about any of the people about them, aimless, pleasure-hunting drifters like themselves. 

(Definition of drifter from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

drifter | American Dictionary

drifternoun [ C ]   disapproving us /ˈdrɪf·tər/ Add to word list Add to word list a person who moves from one place to another or from one job to another without any real purpose (Definition of drifter from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of drifter?

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    • drifter (PERSON)
    • drifter (BOAT)
    • drifter (IN CRICKET)
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