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ALL meanings of flotsam

flot·sam
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  • noun flotsam The wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on or washed up by the sea. 1
  • noun flotsam the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan. 1
  • noun flotsam material or refuse floating on water. 1
  • noun flotsam useless or unimportant items; odds and ends. 1
  • noun flotsam a vagrant, penniless population: the flotsam of the city slums in medieval Europe. 1
  • noun flotsam floating debris 1
  • noun flotsam Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck. 0
  • uncountable noun flotsam Flotsam is rubbish, for example bits of wood and plastic, that is floating on the sea or has been left by the sea on the shore. 0
  • uncountable noun flotsam You can use flotsam to refer to people who do not have homes or jobs and perhaps have had to leave their own country. 0
  • noun flotsam wreckage from a ship found floating 0
  • noun flotsam useless or discarded objects; odds and ends (esp in the phrase flotsam and jetsam) 0
  • noun flotsam vagrants 0
  • noun flotsam the wreckage of a ship or its cargo floating at sea 0
  • noun flotsam odds and ends 0
  • noun flotsam unemployed people who drift from place to place 0
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