drifter
[drif-ter]
noun
Origin of drifter
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Contemporary Examples of drifter
He had invited a 19-year-old drifter named Arnold Murray to his house and they had had consensual sex.
Still living in Australia, he had become a drifter, unable to hold down a job.
Handcuffs, Ropes, and an Open Window: How I Escaped an Unthinkable ChildhoodGenyfer Spark
January 29, 2012
Historical Examples of drifter
Bill said he was a drifter—a dangerous maniac who must have been crazed by the sun.
The Man the Martians MadeFrank Belknap Long
The drifter, the unstable, the good-for-nothing—did not falter.
Five TalesJohn Galsworthy
As I look back on it, it strikes me I always have been more or less of a drifter.
J. Poindexter, ColoredIrvin Shrewsbury Cobb
At best he will become an indifferent citizen; at worst a drifter or a criminal.
ThinkCol. Wm. C. Hunter
He had, like Hadji the beggar, become in twenty-four hours again a drifter.
Down the Mother LodeVivia Hemphill
drifter
noun
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