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jetsam

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/ˈd͡ʒɛtsəm/ English

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noun

  1. Articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress“There she was, floating amongst the jetsam, like so much debris.”
  2. (by extension) discarded odds and ends“They were the jetsam of the dot-com bust.”

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