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Maternal Drift

The gradual or ongoing detachment from the emotional or behavioral responsibilities of motherhood, often seen in young mothers who had children during their teenage years and never fully transitioned into a maternal role.
Can involve a lifestyle that mirrors someone in their twenties, with parenting taking a backseat.
“She had her son at 16, but it’s like she never grew into being a mom—still out every weekend. Classic case of maternal drift.”
“Maternal drift hit hard after she realized she missed out on her youth and tried to reclaim it.”
“Don’t confuse maternal drift with bad parenting—it’s deeper, like being emotionally stuck between two lives.”

Maternal Drift
by PosthumouslyObscure June 2, 2025
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Do you catch my drift

The earliest quotation in the Oxford English Dictionary for this sense of "drift" is dated 1526: "Harde it is . . . to perceyue the processe and dryfte of this treatyse."
Found on "Phrases dot org"

The speaker may be having trouble communicating with their audience and not knowing how to better explain.

This is similar to "do you feel me?" or "do you get it?".

Otherwise there is a certain mentality and a certain consciousness along with what the speaker & the audience are generally known to understand.
Bugsy says to his cohorts in crime "I took care of it. Do you catch my drift?".
by Hare Krsna Gardening December 26, 2022
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Drift Slut

A Drift Slut is a girl who appears to be interested in cars. She will “date” guy after guy in the car scene cheating on each one and ruining friendships and relationships just to drag in clout on her own social media. Predominantly found in drift cars this bottom feeder can be found in four wheel drives and even hot hatch backs! Most call Sydney (Australia) home, but they have been known to be all along the east coast and even across the globe. Beware the drift slut.
Look at Chloe over there! That’s the 3rd guy in 2months. She’s a total drift slut!

She only left Kyle because Jeremy’s car is faster. She’s a drift slut!
by XiaoLongBao December 28, 2022
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drift your camel

I’m going to drift your camel so hard tonight.
by Majessta October 5, 2023
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Philadelphia Drift

When the body of a car is slightly set sideways
“dad do you see that car it has terrible philadelphia drift”
by cmc24 February 18, 2024
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drift trilling

THE ACTION OF UP SETTING THE BASIC DRIFTER or TRACK RAT REMINDING. PEOPLE DRIFTING STARTED IN THE STREETS BY OUTLAWS
IVE BEEN. DRIFT TRILLING. AND TRACK RAT . Now. Hes pissed. For no reason, except the fact. He thinks. Hes bettter then a street. Driver .
by Dr.Broklegg March 28, 2024
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drift trilling

Act of drift trilling , He was trilling the bmw kids
by Dr.Broklegg March 31, 2024
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