0 someone who does not have a permanent home or job and moves from one place to another or from one job to another --
1 a boat for catching fish in nets that float behind it --
2 a person who moves from one place to another or from one job to another without any real purpose --
What did she care about any of the people about them, aimless, pleasure-hunting drifters like themselves.
For she was a child still—only twenty, but she had been in the 'show business' since she was a motherless, fatherless little drifter of sixteen....
A casual town, created by drifters, and void of settled purpose.