Floater

What do we mean by floater?

One that floats or is capable of floating. noun

One who wanders; a drifter. noun

An employee who is reassigned from job to job or shift to shift within an operation. noun

One who votes illegally in different polling places. noun

An insurance policy that protects movable property in transit or regularly subject to use in varying places. noun

A corpse found floating in a body of water. noun

A deposit of material in the vitreous humor of the eye, usually consisting of aggregations of cells or proteins that have detached from the retina, perceived as a spot or thread in the visual field. noun

A knuckleball. noun

One who or that which floats or fluctuates; a person or thing in a floating condition, literally or figuratively. noun

One who floats game. noun

A registering float on a graduated stick, designed to indicate a level attained between periods of observation. noun

In political slang, a voter who is not definitely attached to any party; especially, a voter whose vote may be purchased. noun

A dead human body found floating in the water. noun

A dead human body found floating in the water. noun

In Mississippi and Tennessee, a representative in the State legislature who may be elected indifferently from either of two or more counties. noun

A vat in which hides are tanned. noun

A cask, buoy, or other hermetically sealed vessel containing messages or records and left to drift on the ocean surface in the hope that it will be found by others. See drifter. noun

A floating island. noun

On the stock-exchange, a certificate, bond or other paper, especially one not officially funded or listed, that is accepted as a recognized security. noun

One who floats or swims. noun

Agent noun of float; one who or that which floats.

An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.

An unaffiliated player.

A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.

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 a (or an extra) representative of its own.

One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.

An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.

A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.

(police jargon) A corpse floating in a body of water.

A piece of faeces that floats.

(by extension) Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” that person.

A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.

A floating rate bond.

A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.

A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.

A pie floater.

A sandal.

A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).

A book circulated between prisoners that is not part of the official prison library.

A floater is a social mastermind who wavers between members of one particular clique or between multiple cliques in general, pitting people against one another and leeching out information without seeming like a threat. A perfected floater will appear incredibly trustworthy and neutral and will play both sides, but in reality, floaters look out for themselves and do whatever possible to keep themselves alive in any given scenario. Urban Dictionary

The body of a drowned person, used by police, emergency personnel and news reporters. Urban Dictionary

1 - a small, lighter-than-water turd that, no matter how much you flush, refuses to BE GONE! hence, 2 - an obnoxious asshole that you can't seem to get rid of Urban Dictionary

In hockey, a floater is a player who won't go into the corners to fight for the puck. Instead, he'll just circle around in the slot waiting for his hard-working teammates to set him up, where he'll inevitably score and take all the glory. The opposite of a floater is a grinder. This term was popularized by Don Cherry on his Coaches Corner segment on Hockey Night In Canada. Urban Dictionary

A type of crap that floats. Also one found in the pool at hotel. To deal with floater in pool you simply close down pool, put up caution tape, have manager stare at floater for a hour, then clean it out. Urban Dictionary

A basketball shot in which the ball is launched into a considerably higher arc than that of a normal shot. It is usually the weopon of smaller players (usually Guards) to score over the top of larger players. They can be taken of both feet as a normal jumpshot just pushed higher or off of one like a high launched lay up. Urban Dictionary

A mutant abomination that was the result of direct exposure to the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) in the PC game Fallout. Serpentine in appearance, its lashing tongue attack can deliver a lethal dose of poison. The exact origin of this species is unknown, but they were most likely the result of experimentation done by Richard Grey (AKA The Master, the antagonist of the story) with the FEV. Urban Dictionary

A term to describe the level of someone's gayness. if they are very gay, they float because they are so flam-buoyant. Urban Dictionary

Alternatively, this word can refer to any piece of fecal matter, regardless of flushability, that is less dense than water, thereby floating to the top of the toilet bowl water. The opposite of sinker. Urban Dictionary

One party of a relationship that sits back and enjoys the ride, never plans dates, in it for the physical stuff, still enjoys your company but really isnt in it for the long run. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to floater:
floater, bloater, gloater, floated, flouter, floatier, floatel, flotter.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word floater:
tranche, coupon, libor, mussel, bivalve, inverse, collateral, leverage, lure, glider, sink, pie, aquatic, overtime, floating, rim, mollusk, investor, freshwater, underlying, nest, eugene, bonds, disc, portland, adelaide, cap, seconds, oregon, wave, index, fixed, rear, tracks, rate, wind, sydney, kind, remaining, gas, positions, commonly, shot, usually, appear, songs.

Words that rhyme with floater:
motor, rotor, promoter, boater, voter, doter, oater, toter, bloater, noter, quoter, locomotor, totear, notre, electric motor, outboard motor, soter, main rotor, tail rotor, diesel motor, schroeter, boat her, coat her, demote her, denote her, devote her, drotar, float her, go ter, koetter, note her, promote her, quote her, rewrote her, smote her, throat her, tote her, vote her, wrote her.

Adjectives that are often used to describe floater:
personal, free, large, good, necked, excellent, capped, vitreous, year, high, reverse, little, small, typical, risky, full, musical, synthetic, slow, hypothetical, leveraged, overhand, called, native, pure, separate, par, corresponding, black, easy, standard, marine, theatrical, average, soft, collared, sea, wave, excess, ordinary, hopeless, deep, pigmy, myopic, concrete.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective floater:
bonuses, differential.

Consonant match to floater:
flutter, flatter, flighty, flitty, flirty, flitter, floaty, fluty, flauta, flighter, flota, fleeter, flutey, flouter, fluter, flirter, flauto, fleta, flattie, flotow, flotta, flatau, flat a, flat he, flat high, flat i, flat t, flat to, flat too, flat two, flat who, flater, flato, flatt ae, flaw to, fleet a, fleet he, fleet i, fleur to, flew to, flew too, flew two, flight a, flight he, flight high, flight i, flight t, flirt a, flirt to, flirt who, float a, float her, flout a, flout her, flow t, flu to, flue to, flute a, flute he, flute i, flute to.

Words that sound like floater:
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