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Floater   /flˈoʊtər/   Listen
noun
Floater  n.  
1.
One who floats or swims.
2.
A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
3.
(Politics)
(a)
A voter who shifts from party to party, esp. one whose vote is purchasable. (U. S.)
(b)
A person, as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, 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. (U. S.)
(c)
A person 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. (U. S.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Floater" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pete hurled his bat away from him, after making a mighty swing at a slow floater. He ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters - or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed • Robert Maitland
... floater began to bob fiercely up and down. There was a strong tug on her line, and the reel began to revolve at a high rate of speed, as Mr. Fish, evidently aware that in snapping what appeared to be a nice, fat ...
— Dorothy's Triumph • Evelyn Raymond
... as from aunt to nephew, but I bore her no resentment. No doubt, if you looked at it from a certain angle, Bertram might be considered to have made something of a floater. ...
— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse
... was delighted, and took the infant and loved it as her own child. They named him Plavacek (the floater), because he had come to them floating ...
— Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen • Alexander Chodsko
... shelter of the bridges of the Seine were just awakening to life and a renewed sense of misery. The thin fog had begun to lift. The sharper eyes of the dog discovered the proximity of human beings before the latter could see him, and he let go of his floater long enough to utter a ...
— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray


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