Floater

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Could be so many unseemly things:

• A dead body (see Stephen King's IT)
• A poo that won’t go down (aka a “light brown floater”)

In the context of financial arrangements:

• most often a form of equitable mortgage which hovers over the encumbered assets in question only to clamp down on them when the going gets tough: a floating charge, in other words. To be compared and enviously contrasted with a fixed charge.

A floater might also refer to a floating rate note or a floating rate in the abstract, but this isn't really to be encouraged.

See also

• Floating charge
• Floating rate
• How to get a fluffy floater to flush