English

Noun

jetsam ‎(countable and uncountable, plural jetsams)

1. articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress

   There she was, floating amongst the jetsam, like so much debris.

2. (by extension) discarded odds and ends

   They were the jetsam of the dot-com bust.

Derived terms

• flotsam and jetsam

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See also

• jetsam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• flotsam
• flotsam and jetsam
• lagan
• derelict
• salvage