Drifter vs. Vagabond — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Drifter and Vagabond
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Drifter
One that drifts, especially a person who moves aimlessly from place to place or from job to job.
Vagabond
A person who moves from place to place without a permanent home and often without a regular means of support.
Drifter
A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
Vagabond
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagabond.
Drifter
(nautical) A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
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Vagabond
To wander or travel about, especially as a vagabond.
Drifter
(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.
Vagabond
A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
Drifter
(parachuting) A parachutist who jumps before the rest of the group to determine wind direction.
Vagabond
One who usually wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.
Drifter
A person employed in driving in rock other than coal.
Vagabond
To roam, as a vagabond
Drifter
(angling) One who takes part in drift fishing.
Vagabond
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
Drifter
(angling) A boat used for drift fishing.
Vagabond
Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
Drifter
A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Vagabond
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
To heaven their prayersFlew up, nor missed the way, by envious windsBlown vagabond or frustrate.
Vagabond
Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
Vagabond
One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.
Vagabond
To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
On every part my vagabonding sightDid cast, and drown mine eyes in sweet delight.
Vagabond
Anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place;
Pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea
Vagabond
A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Vagabond
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
The gypsies roamed the woods
Roving vagabonds
The wandering Jew
The cattle roam across the prairie
The laborers drift from one town to the next
They rolled from town to town
Vagabond
Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community;
Led a vagabond life
A rootless wanderer
Vagabond
Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another;
A drifting double-dealer
The floating population
Vagrant hippies of the sixties
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