floaker

1. A character type in China Mieville’s Embassy Town
2. A potentially original floating oak tree with telekinetic capabilities.

“ who were we? Not many, a gathering of no ones, floakers, dissident Staff, a handful of precious Ambassadors. But our numbers were growing,”
- Embassytown, Chapter 13. Del Rey Ballantine Books c China Mieville 2011

by Archem42 April 12, 2025

Floater Friend

A floater friend is someone who knows a lot of people but isn't really close with any of them. A lot of the time floater friends feel left out as all their friends prefer someone over them. They tend to 'float' around different friend groups

Marnie: I hate being a floater friend. I feel so left out, you know?
Jack: "Huh? Oh sorry I was talking to Andrew"
Marnie: :(

by DanceDance003 January 6, 2023

Social Floater

A person who generally alternates between social groups, never fully forming a permanent position in any of them. An extroverted loner; always has friends, but rarely close ones.

John: I was hanging out with Leslie at chess club today!
Eric: I thought she was friends with the athletes?
John: She’s a bit of a social floater.

by Psychedelic surfer December 8, 2020

floaters

those little random shapes you see, ghost~like in appearace, some are beyond the center of the field of vision~when you try to see them, they move around & change shape! Everyone has them.

These dang floaters are driving me batshit crazy!

by Starchylde June 9, 2015

bowl floater

Refers to a snobby, skinny female, with either a skinny, shapely, or large butt, who eats fruit and nuts for breakfast and salads for lunch and dinner, thus making her poop invariably float to the surface when she takes a dump.

Dude, she is such a snob. I took her for a steak dinner and she ordered just a salad. I put up with it, but later discovered after we did the deed, that the droppings she left in the toilet were translucent and floating like a stick in a lake. Wow! She was so snobby and tight I should have figured her for a bowl floater.

by Stagmen April 18, 2017

Floater

A floater is an individual who cannot pin-point what group they belong to. They walk down the halls and get nods or smiles from anyone in any group. They are normally polite and friendly but shy. A floater generally becomes a floater because of failed friendships not through fights but through "drifting" apart. Hence, the name floater. They don't like sharing their personal business so it is very rare a person will get inside and actually stick around. Floaters are known to be kind of sketchy because of this. But as previously noted, they are generally polite, friendly and due to the enormous amounts of nods, waves and gestures they get in a day, they usually have a great smile.

Bob: Hey I saw *blank* today. Jeez that guy is friends with everyone!
Ted: No, he's just a floater, we used to be friends... I don't even know what happened there...
Bob: But what a great smile.
Ted: That's for sure.

by GIBBUY September 12, 2011

Southwest Philly Floater

A shot in basketball where a smaller offensive player floats the basketball over taller defenders who swat helplessly at air attempting to block it. Also known as a teardrop or floater, the term was coined by La Salle guard Tyrone Garland, who honed the craft of this shot as a youth on the rugged streets of Southwest Philly. He ended Ole Miss's Sweet Sixteen dreams by dropping the SW Philly Floater on them for a game winner in the 2013 NCAA Basketball Tournament, making him an instant Philly hoops legend.

OH SNAP! LA SALLE JUST MADE THE SWEET 16! TY GARLAND DROPPED THE SOUTHWEST PHILLY FLOATER ON 'EM! MARSHALL HENDERSON AIN'T GOT S$*% ON US!!

by Delcolicious March 27, 2013