Pulling a "Drift Apart"

When someone keeps repeating a word a lot in the same small period of time.

Originates from: when girls are rejecting you and keep saying they don't want you to drift apart.

Dude 1: He kept pulling a "drift apart" about his football practice
Dude 2: Yea, man! WE GET IT. STOP REPEATING.

by Meedz ElHussiny September 28, 2012

perception drift

someone’s inability to remember how their natural face looks after they have had a number of cosmetic procedures such as Botox

Perception drift is when a person’s perception of change following an aesthetic treatment is skewed or inaccurate. In most cases, other people notice these changes, but not the ones who underwent the procedure.

by Marc2.0 December 4, 2023

Controller Drift

When your controller thumbsticks make you move left to right unintentionally.

I have controller drift.

by Mason223~! June 29, 2022

drift queen

When she's been worn to the point she's got as much traction as a set of drift tires.

Stud: "She's hot but total drift queen, hot dog down the hallway, bro"

Bud: "oh I'm sorry, man, called it tho"

by Cdraw7 June 12, 2022

AI drift

The gradual loss of context in long AI conversations. The model slowly forgets earlier details, starts making stuff up, or goes completely off-topic because it has no real understanding and refuses to ask for clarification. Forces you to abandon the session and start over.

Coined November 10 2025 by developer Joshua Girod after building AI Driftmaster – an open-source tool that saves full uncompacted chat history in a database so you can reload context anytime.

Opposite of human conversation – we say "wait, what were we talking about?" AI just hallucinates forward.

My Claude session had mad AI drift—started talking about cats when we were debugging code.20 messages in:

User: "Fix the login bug"

AI: "Here's a recipe for banana bread"

Classic AI drift.

by nentrapper November 10, 2025

Lexical Drift

Similar to semantic drift but instead of the definition changing the word and definition change.

Due to lexical drift, the Old English word mete, which once referred to all types of food, evolved into the modern English word meat, now specifically referring to animal flesh.

by Iyla1201 December 30, 2024

Drifting

The thing everyone's joycon likes to do. It could happen for a multitude of reasons.

Billy: Hey Jim, what's wrong with your joycon?
Jim: Damn it it must be drifting.
Billy: Just blow into it maybe it will tone it down a bit.

by LegalMeme September 10, 2019