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A person who drafts drawings using either a computer (CAD) or pencil, pen and paper. Modern drafter(s) use computers and drafting software (Cad monkey). Drafters usually work under the direction of a designer or engineer. Drafters are expected to be experts at creating drawings.
An engineer would like to present an idea. He would request a drafter to create a drawing.
drafter by Jean-Paul Lanaux November 6, 2007
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n. Someone riding on your coattails. Sometimes to glory:; sometimes to prison.

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Hey Rudy! Why are you such a drafter? Is it the money or the illusions of glory?
drafter by gnostic3 December 4, 2019

Drafter’s Disease 

Fictional disease for when you get burned out from drafting too much and you don’t want to draft anymore. For some it can be cured, but for others it is permanent and they need to leave CAD Drafting.
1:Can you draft this part for me?
1:Damn, I can’t. I think I’m getting a case of Drafter’s Disease
Drafter’s Disease by maxxica January 24, 2022

hall drafter

when you walk behind a fat or large person in a crowded hallway that clears the ways for you so you can get through quckly and hassle free.
thank god i found a hall drafter or i wouldda been late for class yo!
hall drafter by Jameses September 28, 2005
When you're 18 years old and not old enough to have cigarettes or alcohol but you're sent out to be forced to die in a meaningless war. Without choice. That's pretty fucked up isnt it? Basically it's a death lottery that goes by your birthdate and if you win you get forced to die.
Aww FUCK. I got drafted. Fuck this shit.
Drafted by Gage2003A3 January 4, 2020
A person, with no real place to call their home. They wander from place to place, sometimes looking for something. Sometimes becuase its the only way to get away from everything that made them become drifters in the first place. We all have our reasons for it.

Drifters move from place to place...once their problems catch up to them, or they've had what fun they can get out of the place they are at, they move on again. They are but simple wanderers, for whatever reasons they have to be one.

Some consider them bottem feeders, just wasting everything from everyone else. Hobo's are often considered drifters. They may be homeless, but hobo's can't get around, or rely on themselves, thus they go to homeless shelters. A drifter may not have a home, but they are self reliant. They live alone, and have to rely only on themselves.

Only when they find a reason to stay somewhere, will they no longer be a drifter.
"Maybe I'll just disappear again. Too many people, and too many problems. And I can't do anything to help."
drifter by DrifterX May 4, 2005

Windy City Drifter 

A person who constantly swerves from left to right while slowly walking on the sidewalk. This behavior often results from a preoccupation with a cell phone, gaping at skyscrapers, or a general lack of awareness.

Windy City Drifters are commonly encountered in crowded areas of Chicago and block the path of walking pedestrians. They have the greatest impact on foot traffic during rush hour but are an annoyance at all times of the day.
It took forever to walk from the train to the office today. There were windy city drifters everywhere. I felt like punchin' someone in the back of the head.
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square grouper

Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."
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"Hey, do you know that girl Sally?"

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"Yeah... I know."
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I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
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Every time I walk into the toy aisle, I catch myself kidulting over the latest action figures and LEGO sets!
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Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murderer used a serrated blade.
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