- 1parts of boats, pieces of wood or garbage, etc. that are found on land near the ocean or floating on the ocean; any kind of garbage The beaches are wide and filled with interesting flotsam and jetsam. compare jetsam
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- 2people 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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