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floater

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  1. A person who floats: A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid.
  2. A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid: A corpse floating in a body of water.
  3. A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role: A person who frequently changes where they live; a drifter, a vagrant.
  4. A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role: A person who frequently changes employment.
  5. A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role: 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.
  6. A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role: An "extra" (male) guest at a party who is asked by the host to entertain the other (often female) guests.
  7. A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role: 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.
  8. A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role: A voter who shifts their allegiance from one political party to another, especially (US) one whose vote can be illegally purchased.
  9. A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role: 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.
  10. A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role: 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.
  11. A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role: A player not affiliated with a team.
  12. A thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid: A river mussel (genus Anodonta).
  13. A thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid: A small suet dumpling put into soup.
  14. A thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid: A piece of faeces which floats.
  15. A thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid: A threadlike speck in the visual field which seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour of the eye.
  16. A thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid: 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.
  17. A thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid: Ellipsis of pie floater (“a meat pie served floating in a bowl of thick green pea soup”).
  18. A thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid: A waterproof sandal.
  19. A thing which moves from place to place, as if floating: A mistake or misstep; a faux pas.
  20. A thing which moves from place to place, as if floating: Clipping of floating rate bond.
  21. A thing which moves from place to place, as if floating: An insurance policy covering movable property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
  22. A thing which moves from place to place, as if floating: A book circulated between prisoners which is not part of the official prison library.
  23. A thing which moves from place to place, as if floating: 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.
  24. A thing which moves from place to place, as if floating: A spinning delivery of the ball that travels in a high arched path.
  25. A thing which moves from place to place, as if floating: A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
  26. A thing which moves from place to place, as if floating: A criminal sentence which is suspended so long as the convicted person leaves an area.

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