drifter

The tag was also, incidentally, a play on “The Blue Dahlia,” a 1946 movie written by Raymond Chandler and starring Veronica Lake as a plucky drifter who helps the hero track down his wife’s murderer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

A drifter, he lived in Portugal's Algarve region, on and off, for years.

From BBC ● May 9, 2025

This drifter comes in and says there is nothing wrong with this Asian family, and folks should resist groupthink.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2024

It might have helped if Siff had a sturdier partner, but Alexander’s wan emo sensibility lacks the haunted charisma of a sexy drifter attempting to move on from his past.

From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

McCandless had tried to disguise the fact that he was a drifter living out of a backpack: He told his fellow employees that he lived across the river in Laughlin.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

What I found was that many of these drifters were tired of doing nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Juliette Lewis has played murderers, drifters, alcoholics, punk rockers, Reiki healers and roller-derby captains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

Kristofferson turned that tale into the story of two drifters, who find love on the road and are separated, eventually, by death.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024

In San Antonio and Butte and Cheyenne and Reliance they would meet miners, rodeo hands, slaughterhouse workers, bartenders, drifters, janitors and motel maids.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

From my window I watched the swaying lanterns, and ahead of them the slumping figures of the drifters, heading for the next town.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck