- the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water.
- material or refuse floating on water.
- useless or unimportant items; odds and ends.
- a vagrant, penniless population: the flotsam of the city slums in medieval Europe.
- wreckage from a ship found floating
- useless or discarded objects; odds and ends (esp in the phrase flotsam and jetsam)
- vagrants
