drifter
d rif ter
- n a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- It's a good spot to hide from the authorities, if you have reason to be on the run which may be how Omar al-Faruq, a 31-year-old drifter from Kuwait, ended up living there, in .
- Patrick Purdy, 26, a drifter with guerrilla-warfare fantasies, had returned to the % school he attended 16 years earlier for a final, cowardly assault.
- The perpetrator was Richard Speck, then 24, a drifter born in Illinois, raised in Texas, wandering from petty crime to petty crime and bar to bar.