Usually means: Discarded cargo from a ship.
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  1. jetsam: Merriam-Webster
  2. jetsam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jetsam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jetsam: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Jetsam, jetsam: Wordnik
  7. jetsam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jetsam: Wiktionary
  9. jetsam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jetsam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. jetsam: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Jetsam (disambiguation), Jetsam (film), Jetsam (short story), Jetsam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Jetsam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. jetsam: Rhymezone
  17. Jetsam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. jetsam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. jetsam: FreeDictionary.org
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  22. jetsam: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. jetsam: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Jetsam: Legal dictionary
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  1. jetsam: A Word A Day
  2. jetsam: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jetsam: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Jetsam: Latitude Mexico

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noun:  Items thrown overboard from a ship or boat in distress in order to lighten its load.
noun:  (by extension) Discarded or leftover odds and ends.

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