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/flˈoʊtər/ Listen

noun

Floater n.

One who floats or swims.

A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.

(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.)

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Etymology of 'Floater'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Floater" Quotes from Famous Books

... keenest Might find for his needs; and he then the fifteenth, Sought to the sound-wood. A swain thereon show'd him, A sea-crafty man, all the make of the land-marks. Wore then a while, on the waves was the floater, 210 The boat under the berg, and yare then the warriors Strode up on the stem; the streams were a-winding The sea 'gainst the sands. Upbore the swains then Up into the bark's barm the bright-fretted weapons, The war-array stately; then out the lads shov'd ...

— The Tale of Beowulf - Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats • Anonymous

... in her brain. She leaned closer and exclaimed in a low voice: "And how do we know he doesn't get by with murder the way he does with everything else? There's many a man picked up along the coast as a 'floater' that nobody knows ...

— El Diablo • Brayton Norton

... 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

... is then at once shown on the divided scale in the tube, a. The lower bulb, f, contains some mercury; e is a small glass knob, which serves to maintain the balance, while b is an empty glass bulb (floater). ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 • Various

... 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