noun [U]
1 parts of boats, pieces of wood or rubbish/garbage, etc. that are found floating on the sea or along the shore; any kind of rubbish/garbage:
The beaches are wide and filled with interesting flotsam and jetsam.
compareJETSAM
2 people who have no home or job and who move from place to place, often rejected by society:
the human flotsam of inner cities
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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