A person who floats. • A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid. • A corpse floating in a body of water. • A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role. • A person who frequently changes where they live; a drifter, a vagrant. • A person who frequently changes employment. • An employee of an organization who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away; also, a short-term employee; a temporary, a temp. • An "extra" (male) guest at a party who is asked by the host to entertain the other (often female) guests. • A person who attaches themselves to a group of people, and who repeatedly shows up at group activities even though this is undesired by the group; a hanger-on. • A voter who shifts their allegiance from one political party to another, especially (US) one whose vote can be illegally purchased. • A person who votes illegally in various electoral districts or polling places, either under a false voter registration or under the name of a properly registered voter who has not yet voted. • 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 one (or an extra) representative of its own. • A player not affiliated with a team. • A thing which floats. • A thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid. • A river mussel (genus Anodonta). • A small suet dumpling put into soup. • A piece of faeces which floats. • A threadlike speck in the visual field which seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour of the eye. • A ball that moves lightly through the air, as if floating; specifically (basketball), an early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop. • Ellipsis of pie floater (“a meat pie served floating in a bowl of thick green pea soup”). • A waterproof sandal. • A thing which moves from place to place, as if floating. • A mistake or misstep; a faux pas. • Clipping of floating rate bond. • An insurance policy covering movable property at more than one location or which may be in transit. • A book circulated between prisoners which is not part of the official prison library. • eye floater • A manoeuvre in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of a wave on to the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave. • A spinning delivery of the ball that travels in a high arched path. • A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air. • A criminal sentence which is suspended so long as the convicted person leaves an area. • A frame with space between the artwork and the frame itself.