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Definition of: flotsam
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(flot′səm) noun
1. Law Goods cast or swept from a vessel into the sea and found floating. Compare JETSAM, LAGAN.
2. Any objects floating on the sea.
3. Hence, vagrants or unattached persons: the flotsam of society. Also spelled flot′san (-sən), flot′son. [<AF floteson <floter float <OE flotian]
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