Coleman, who was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for single-handedly halting an enemy column. Forty years ago, the Globe almost single-handedly became responsible for making the killing of babies legal by hammering on it month after month during the years prior to 1969. in 1963 and built it up, almost single-handedly, to the publishing powerhouse it is today.
Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: 1  drift, impetus, impulsion(noun) a force that moves something along. 2  drift(noun) the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) 3  drift(noun) a process of linguistic change over a period of time.
Top definition. drifter. 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.