drifter (redirected from Drifter (disambiguation))

drift·er  (drftr)

n.

One that drifts, especially a person who moves aimlessly from place to place or from job to job.

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drifter [ˈdrɪftə]

n

1. a person or thing that drifts

2. a person who moves aimlessly from place to place, usually without a regular job

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Fishing) a boat used for drift-net fishing

4. (Transport / Nautical Terms) Nautical a large jib of thin material used in light breezes

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

drifter - a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support vagrant, vagabond, floater beachcomber - a vagrant living on a beach have-not, poor person - a person with few or no possessions sundowner - a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown hobo, tramp, bum - a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" bird of passage, roamer, rover, wanderer - someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

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drifter

noun wanderer, bum (informal), tramp, itinerant, vagrant, hobo (U.S.), vagabond, rolling stone, bag lady (chiefly U.S.) an out-of-work drifter

Translations

drifter [ˈdrɪftəʳ] N

1. (Naut) → trainera f

2. (= person) → vago/a m/f, vagabundo/a m/f

drifter [ˈdrɪftə^r] n → personne f sans but dans la vie

drifter

n

(= person) → Gammler(in) m(f); he’s a bit of a drifter → ihn hälts nirgends lange

(boat) → Drifter m