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UK
/dɹˈɪftɐ/
]
[ US /ˈdɹɪftɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɹɪftɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
How To Use drifter In A Sentence
- (and a title echo) with the tale of a small-town girl falling in love with a drifter who has a hairy past. Undefined
- Jack, an outcast and drifter himself, feels a connection with the tinkers and takes the job which, in turn, takes Taylor to perilous places within and without.
- American television and cinema to my recollection has always featured sanctimonious public preachifying, to the extent that Eastwood mocks this rift in the American consciousness in “High Plains Drifter.” Fundamentalist obsession with the Crucifixion (Why are some people obsessed with the Crucifixion?, pt. 2)
- In short, we had to pander to the general belief that drifters were losers who were ashamed of their personal histories.
- While the young drifter proves he's not so heartless when he saves one of the kids from drowning, he is certainly not above cuckolding Les.
- I heard that she took a job as night security somewhere, until she busted a drifter that wandered into her area.
- Other chapters in this informative book cover the drift-net; trawling in the west coast of Scotland lochs; the Scottish east coast fishers in the days of sail; steam drifters and more recent fishing methods.
- Many thousands arrived on the Norfolk coast and on light-vessels and drifters offshore.
- His victims are invisible, unlikely to be missed: prostitutes, drifters, bottom-feeders.
- He and his colleagues, he writes, were ‘permanent rangers on a temporary river,’ stuck on land wanted by nobody but the gun-toting drifters and weekend drunkards who squatted in the forest.