Usually means: Debris floating or washed ashore.
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  1. flotsam and jetsam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. flotsam and jetsam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. flotsam and jetsam: Wiktionary
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  5. Flotsam and Jetsam (Peter Gabriel album), Flotsam and Jetsam (band), Flotsam and Jetsam (disambiguation), Flotsam and Jetsam, Flotsam and jetsam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (flotsam and jetsam)

noun:  (nautical) The remains of a shipwreck still floating in the water.
noun:  (nautical) That which has been discharged from a ship or boat, especially on the ocean or a sea, (flotsam unintentionally and jetsam intentionally).
noun:  (figuratively) A collection of miscellaneous items or fragments of little importance.
noun:  (figuratively) People considered to be of little worth.

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