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
