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What is a drifter?

What is a drifter? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pejorative) A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
  2. (nautical) A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
  3. (automotive) A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.
  4. (fishing) One who takes part in drift fishing.
  5. (mining, historical) A person employed in driving in rock other than coal.
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Instead of a drifter causing a drift and then countering to straighten out, he will instead over-counter so his car goes into another drift.
Furthermore, there were no comparisons presented between model predictions and the observed drifter tracks.
Babs, a larky drifter, hopes to satisfy her spiritual and sexual hunger by returning to her roots.
I heard that she took a job as night security somewhere, until she busted a drifter that wandered into her area.
Salvation seems to arrive in the form of a drifter that Tim meets at the bar, a fellow who helps him cover up the killing.
Conor O'Neill is your typical underachiever, a good-looking, sulky drifter who's a ticket scalper and a gambler on the wrong side of the dice.

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