drifter

English

Etymology

drift +‎ -er

Noun

Wikipedia drifter (plural drifters)

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 that uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.

Translations

person

• French: vagabond (fr) m

• Italian: vagabondo (it), giramondo (it) m
• Serbo-Croatian: skitnica (sh), lutalica (sh), frenter (sh)
• Spanish: trotamundo (es) m

sail

• Finnish: drifteri (fi)

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Swedish

Noun

drifter

1. indefinite plural of drift