1 flotsam | Definition of flotsam

flotsam

noun

flot·sam | \ ˈflät-səm

Definition of flotsam

1 : floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo broadly : floating debris flotsam washed up by the tide

2a : a floating population (as of emigrants or castaways) human flotsam

b : miscellaneous or unimportant material a notebook filled with flotsam and jetsam

c : debris, remains the village … built on the flotsam of war— Stan Sesser