Definitions for drifters

drifters drift·er

Spelling: [drif-ter]
IPA: /ˈdrɪf tər/

Drifters is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 256 anagrams from letters in drifters (defirrst).

Definitions for drifters

noun

  1. a person or thing that drifts.
  2. a person who goes from place to place, job to job, etc., remaining in each for a short period.
  3. Also called drift boat. a boat used in fishing with a drift net.

Origin of drifters

First recorded in 1860-65; drift + -er1

Examples for drifters

He had, like Hadji the beggar, become in twenty-four hours again a drifter.

Bill said he was a drifter—a dangerous maniac who must have been crazed by the sun.

Skipper of drifter (who has been fined thirty-five shillings for losing a pair of binoculars).

The drifter, the unstable, the good-for-nothing—did not falter.

The average man or woman who belongs to the former class has rather a horror of the drifter and likes to give him a wide berth.

At best he will become an indifferent citizen; at worst a drifter or a criminal.

Still living in Australia, he had become a drifter, unable to hold down a job.

He had invited a 19-year-old drifter named Arnold Murray to his house and they had had consensual sex.

We were steaming in line abreast, and the order was signalled for each ship to take one drifter in tow.

As I look back on it, it strikes me I always have been more or less of a drifter.

Word Value for drifters
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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