ALL meanings of flotsam
flot·sam
F f - 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