Clues for the word "DRIFT"
We've had 80 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 119 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on December 10, 2025.
Definition of drift
- n. - A driving; a violent movement.
- n. - The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- n. - Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- n. - The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- n. - That which is driven, forced, or urged along
- n. - Anything driven at random.
- n. - A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.
- n. - A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- n. - The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- n. - A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.
- n. - In South Africa, a ford in a river.
- n. - A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- n. - A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- n. - A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
- n. - A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
- n. - The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- n. - The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- n. - The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- n. - The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- n. - The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- n. - The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- v. i. - To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.
- v. i. - To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
- v. i. - to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- v. t. - To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- v. t. - To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.
- v. t. - To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
- a. - That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
Referring Clues
- Implication
- Blown snow
- Underlying meaning
- "Catch my ___?"
- Go with the flow
- Snowbank
- Wander aimlessly
- Move aimlessly
- Snowstorm's aftermath
- Tendency
- "Get my ___?"
- Tenor
- Float aimlessly
- Windblown snow pile
- Go off course
- Stray
- "Get my ___?"
- Headache for a snow shoveler
- Go with the tide
- Float along
- Wander like a hobo
- Blizzard creation
- Meaning
- Snow formation
- Winter driving hazard
- A perceptive person catches it
- Move about aimlessly
- Not stay on topic
- Sight after a blizzard
- Float
- See 8
- Implication makes many quarrel
- Float off
- Make slow progress as a tenor
- Doctor with one foot in the bank
- Tendency for a doctor to be unusually fit
- Getting the gist as you go off to sleep
- Tenor made unusually fit by a doctor
- Go on the current course
- Wander
- How a doctor can get fit in slow motion
- General idea
- Move with wind and tide
- Gist - snow
- General idea (of snow?)
- Vein in one foot attended to by medic
- Implication of what's been said
- The meaning of "tendency"
- Many break the bank
- Democratic split resulting in powerless movement
- Tendency of doctor to make fit
- Tenor Domingo's first break
- Split after daughter seen to wander
- Current doctor provided treatment, finally
- Meaning daughter's at fault
- Current doctor, fit for a change!
- Both sides of door have 12 inches leeway
- Snowstorm formation
- General meaning to move aimlessly
- Go along to the doctor to get fit?
- Meaning to go with the tide
- What snow can do
- Lose attention
- Tenor and doctor, unusually fit
- Snow mound
- Move aimlessly from place to place
- Snowstorm consequence
- Be carried by the current
- Windblown pile of snow
- Accumulation of snow
- Deviate from the intended course
- Get carried away
- Move with the current
- "Catch my ___?"
- Move slowly on the water
- "... if you catch my ___"
- Float away
- Get sidetracked
- Meander
- Deviate
Last Seen In
- LA Times - December 10, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 25, 2025
- LA Times - October 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 17, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 28, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 29, 2025
- New York Times - January 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 19, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 24, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 13, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 19, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 20, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - April 30, 2024
- USA Today - January 04, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 25, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 26, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 23, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 08, 2023
- LA Times - July 27, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 23, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 20, 2023
- LA Times - June 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 17, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 03, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 28, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 20, 2023
- USA Today - January 30, 2023
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