English
Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��t�(r)|-��t�(r)
Noun
en-noun
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- Anything that 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.
- A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.
- An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.
- (insurance) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
- (police jargon) A floating corpse picked up from a body of water.
- sports An unaffiliated player.
- surfing 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.
- vulgar A piece of faeces that floats.
#: 2004: He left a floater in the toilet. — poetry critical workshop 1
- two-up A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
#: 1998: In this section "floater" means a spin in which at least 1 of the coins does not turn over in the air at least once. — Queensland government Casino Gaming Amendment Rule (No. 2) 1998 2
- 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.
Derived terms
pie floater
See also
mote
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