Definitions from Wiktionary ()
|
|
▸ noun: A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid.
▸ noun: (law enforcement, slang) A corpse floating in a body of water.
▸ noun: (figurative) A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role.
▸ noun: A person who frequently changes where they live; a drifter, a vagrant.
▸ noun: A person who frequently changes employment.
▸ noun: An employee of an organization who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away; also, a short-term employee; a temporary, a temp.
▸ noun: An "extra" (male) guest at a party who is asked by the host to entertain the other (often female) guests.
▸ noun: (slang) A person who attaches themselves to a group of people, and who repeatedly shows up at group activities even though this is undesired by the group; a hanger-on.
▸ noun: (politics)
▸ noun: A voter who shifts their allegiance from one political party to another, especially (US) one whose vote can be illegally purchased.
▸ noun: (US) A person who votes illegally in various electoral districts or polling places, either under a false voter registration or under the name of a properly registered voter who has not yet voted.
▸ noun: (US) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed one (or an extra) representative of its own.
▸ noun: (sports) A player not affiliated with a team.
▸ noun: A thing which floats.
▸ noun: A thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid.
▸ noun: A river mussel of the genus Anodonta; an anodon.
▸ noun: A small suet dumpling put into soup.
▸ noun: (vulgar) A piece of faeces which floats.
▸ noun: (ophthalmology) A threadlike speck in the visual field which seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour of the eye.
▸ noun: (sports) A ball that moves lightly through the air, as if floating; specifically (basketball), an early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.
▸ noun: (India) A waterproof sandal.
▸ noun: (figurative) A thing which moves from place to place, as if floating.
▸ noun: (slang, dated) A mistake or misstep; a faux pas.
▸ noun: (insurance) An insurance policy covering movable property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
▸ noun: (prison slang) A book circulated between prisoners which is not part of the official prison library.
▸ noun: (surfing) A manoeuvre in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of a wave on to the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
▸ noun: (cricket) A spinning delivery of the ball that travels in a high arched path.
▸ noun: (two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
▸ noun: (US, law) A criminal sentence which is suspended so long as the convicted person leaves an area.
▸ noun: (Australia) Short for pie floater (“a meat pie served floating in a bowl of thick green pea soup”). [(Australia) A meat pie served floating in a bowl of thick green pea soup.]
▸ noun: (finance) Short for floating rate bond.
Similar:
muscae volitantes,
floating policy,
musca volitans,
fluctuator,
floatmaker,
levitator,
wafter,
inflater,
effuser,
sinker,
more...
Opposite:
Types:
Phrases:
Adjectives:
|
▸ Words similar to floater
▸ Usage examples for floater
▸ Idioms related to floater
▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing floater
▸ Words that often appear near floater
▸ Rhymes of floater
▸ Invented words related to floater